Tracks in the Red Dust

An Australian Outback Thriller

Perfect for fans of Jane Harper, Chris Hammer, and Garry Disher

He spent his life reading ancient stone. He died for what he found in it.

When palaeontologist Dr Noah Henshaw vanishes from a remote research site on the Nullarbor Plain, Detective Constable Lillian Tate expects a welfare check—a scientist wandered off, disoriented by heat and isolation. Then she finds his body.

Henshaw was murdered. His research files are gone. And the fossil site he'd been excavating sits directly above land flagged for mining permits that should never have been approved.

The Nullarbor has preserved millions of years of history in its limestone. It's also preserved evidence of something more recent—fraudulent surveys, forged approvals, and a conspiracy connecting mining interests to officials who were supposed to stop them.

Henshaw had documented everything. Now Tate is the only one who knows what he found—and the people who killed him know she's looking.

In a landscape where time moves in millennia, some secrets don't stay buried for long.