Bloody Colonials

Shameless Halloran, convict stablehand, has a problem. He knows of a murder but doesnt dare tell anyone. Who can he trust? Every figure of authority in this early Australian penal settlement is a potential suspectall have dark pasts and ruthless ambitions.So the canny Irishman enlists the help of a young doctor, newly arrived, as respectable front for his sleuthing. What follows is a tension-packed and hilarious romp as the odd couple lurch erratically towards an unlikely revelation.Bloody Colonials is a wickedly satirical piece of crime fiction set in a forbidding landscapewhere big fish battle to the death in a dangerously small pond.