When the Deep, Dark Bush Swallows You Whole

A missing woman . . . a townful of suspects. The haunting debut crime novel that transports the reader back to the 1980s and a small rural town in New Zealand.

-She wasn-t the first and she wouldn-t be the last; swallowed into the deep, dark recesses of the King Country bush, never to be seen again.-

It-s January 1983. During his university summer break, Ryan Bradley returns to the remote town of Nashville in New Zealand-s rugged King Country.

It-s a bittersweet trip- he-s working long, punishing hours as a woolpresser, he needs to sell his late mother-s house, and he-s increasingly feeling like an outcast in his childhood town.

But mostly he-s haunted by memories of Sanna Sovernen, a Finnish backpacker and his secret lover, who worked with him in the shearing shed the summer before - then vanished without trace.

Now Sanna-s sister Emilia has arrived from Finland, determined to get answers - and as he-s the workmate who reported Sanna missing, she wants Ryan-s help. Because Emilia knows her sister was not the first female traveller in the area to disappear . . .