“Packs a real wallop…. An epic and ambitious mystery set against the vast backdrop of Central Australia where indigenous and white people live side by side in an uneasy truce.”—Vogue (Australia)

“Witty, knowing, at times downright hilarious.  The plot is absorbing and Hyland’s characters are originals….  As Emily Tempest untangles the knot of a murder, she also comes to rediscover her past, her belonging and her self.”—Brisbane Courier Mail

“Incorporates geophysical data, race politics and Aboraiginal spirituality into a seamless, often hilarious stream of narrative. [It] has all the hallmarks of a first of a very successful series with the potential to forge a new sub-genre of detective fiction—that of a feisty, female indigenous sleuth whose intelligence and tenacity prove superior to force and ignorance.”—Sydney Morning Herald