Deception Creek
Fleur McDonald
Reviewed by Helen
I love Fleur McDonald’s stories, I love Dave Burrows and I love visiting the small town of Barker where Dave is a detective, and this visit there is a lot happening all at the same time, Detective Dave Burrows and Senior Constable Jack Higgins are going to be kept on their toes this time around with the support of their partners Kim and Zara, clear the decks when you pick this one up because you are not going to want to put it down.
Joel Hammond has returned home to Barker after being released from Jail a very different man than he was when he left, his parents have passed on but he returns to the home he grew up in, but not everyone in town is happy that he has returned and it has nothing to do with what he went to jail for but something that happened when he was sixteen and trouble is brewing.
Emma Cameron lives on her farm Deception Creek she runs it with the help of her farm hand Matt, she is recently divorced mainly because her ex says she was married to the farm, she went through a tough time ten years before when she was the first to arrive on the scene of a terrible car accident, she has kept in touch with the driver of that car, Kyle through the years and he has arrived in town to catch up with Emma, could this mean changes for Emma?
Dave and Jack are feeling that something is not quite right in their town at the moment and feel the need to look into the death of young Maggie Douglas years before and need to talk to Joel Hammond, as well as that Zara, Jack’s girlfriend and journalist is looking into the reasons for Joel going to jail and they uncover a lot more than any of them expected, family secrets, lies and cover-ups.
This one had me turning the pages it was basically a one sitting read with a bit of sleep over night, I could barely put it down, Fleur McDonald has again put together a brilliant story with twists and turns that kept me enthralled and turning the pages, and explosive end had everything uncovered, so many different crimes linked in a way that had me shaking my head all set in a small farming community, this is a book that I would highly recommend, a brilliant read, one not to be missed and as ever I am looking forward to the next Fleur McDonald book.
My thanks to Allen & Unwin for my copy to read and review.
Joel Hammond has returned home to Barker after being released from Jail a very different man than he was when he left, his parents have passed on but he returns to the home he grew up in, but not everyone in town is happy that he has returned and it has nothing to do with what he went to jail for but something that happened when he was sixteen and trouble is brewing.
Emma Cameron lives on her farm Deception Creek she runs it with the help of her farm hand Matt, she is recently divorced mainly because her ex says she was married to the farm, she went through a tough time ten years before when she was the first to arrive on the scene of a terrible car accident, she has kept in touch with the driver of that car, Kyle through the years and he has arrived in town to catch up with Emma, could this mean changes for Emma?
Dave and Jack are feeling that something is not quite right in their town at the moment and feel the need to look into the death of young Maggie Douglas years before and need to talk to Joel Hammond, as well as that Zara, Jack’s girlfriend and journalist is looking into the reasons for Joel going to jail and they uncover a lot more than any of them expected, family secrets, lies and cover-ups.
This one had me turning the pages it was basically a one sitting read with a bit of sleep over night, I could barely put it down, Fleur McDonald has again put together a brilliant story with twists and turns that kept me enthralled and turning the pages, and explosive end had everything uncovered, so many different crimes linked in a way that had me shaking my head all set in a small farming community, this is a book that I would highly recommend, a brilliant read, one not to be missed and as ever I am looking forward to the next Fleur McDonald book.
My thanks to Allen & Unwin for my copy to read and review.
5 stars
Published November 1st 2021 by Allen & Unwin AU
