Why a Booktrail?
2022: The first in a new series of Outback Noir
The Stoning
What you need to know before your trail
A local schoolteacher is found taped to a tree and stoned to death. Suspicion instantly falls on the refugees at the new detention centre on Cobb’s northern outskirts. Tensions are high, between whites and the local indigenous community, between immigrants and the townies.
Still mourning the recent death of his father, Detective Sergeant George Manolis returns to his childhood hometown to investigate. Within minutes of his arrival, it’s clear that Cobb is not the same place he left. Once it thrived, but now it’s a poor and derelict dusthole, with the local police chief it deserves. And as Manolis negotiates his new colleagues’ antagonism, and the simmering anger of a community destroyed by alcohol and drugs, the ghosts of his past begin to flicker to life.
Travel Guide
Fictional Cobb in the Outback
The town where the novel is set is ficitonal. The name is Cobb, and it’s somewhere very remote in the even more remote outback of Australia.
The desert setting is remote and hot. Yet, it is also chilling at the same time. You are miles from anywhere, and someone in the novel returns to his hometown and finds it much changed.
The dust, the remoteness, the danger, the isolation and the claustrophobia. Welcome to Cobb…… a dustry dirthole with an absence of hope.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Stoning
Destination/Location: Fictional Cobb, The Outback Author: Peter Papathanasiou Departure:2022
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