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  • Location: Australia, South Australia, The outback, 'Unamurra'

Red Dirt Road

Red Dirt Road

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2022: One outback town. Two puzzling murders. Fifty suspects.

  • ISBN: B0B7R9VZTR
  • Genre: Crime

What you need to know before your trail

n Unamurra, a drought-scarred, one-pub town deep in the outback, two men are savagely murdered a month apart – their bodies elaborately arranged like angels.

With no witnesses, no obvious motives and no apparent connections between the killings, how can lone police officer Detective Dana Russo – flown in from hundreds of kilometres away – possibly solve such a baffling, brutal case?

Met with silence and suspicion from locals who live by their own set of rules, Dana must take over a stalled investigation with only a week to make progress.

But with a murderer hiding in plain sight, and the parched days rapidly passing, Dana is determined to uncover the shocking secrets of this forgotten town – a place where anyone could be a killer.

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Unamurra

Unamurra is a remote, one pub town, population 50. It is a small town, ravaged by drought and poverty. You never pass by here, no one comes here. But if you do travel here, you will want to leave immediately.

The closest real place close by is Dutton. The police describe this region as the “most isolated districts, a world of flat horizons and dust, rumoured to be riddled with corruption”.

BookTrail Boarding Pass: Red Dirt Road

Destination/location: Australia, Outback, South Australia – ‘Unamurra’  Author/guide: S R White  Departure Time: 2019

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