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Adrian Hyland

Autor(a) de Moonlight Downs

5 Works 387 Membros 41 Reviews 3 Favorited

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Obras de Adrian Hyland

Moonlight Downs (2006) 203 cópias
Gunshot Road (2010) 101 cópias
Kinglake-350 (2011) 43 cópias
Canticle Creek (2021) 33 cópias
The Wiregrass (2023) 7 cópias

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an exotic setting with noice local color and an acceptab;le plot
enjoyed it and will try others in the series
 
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cspiwak | outras 13 resenhas | Mar 6, 2024 |
Well written, but I found the characters rather muddling, but great outback noir
 
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ChrisGreenDog | outras 6 resenhas | Feb 25, 2024 |
Adrian Hyland's Kinglake-350 is the riveting account of Black Saturday, February 7, 2009-- the day the most devastating wildfire in the country's history swept through "the great fire triangle of south-eastern Australia... the most fire-prone location on Earth."

Hyland is a master craftsman who knows how to tell a tale. I became a fan of his mysteries Moonlight Downs and Gunshot Road and soon learned to get my hands on anything he's written.

Hyland brings his considerable skill in fiction to Kinglake-350. I am no stranger to the subject of this book. Arizona has had more than its share of devastating wildfires, but I couldn't believe the sheer amount of information in the pages of this book. (And they weren't presented as dry, yawn-inducing facts.) Caught in your house during a wildfire? Don't shelter in the bathroom. Dirt can, and does, catch fire. Yes, there is such a thing as black rain. Hyland also goes into climate change, global warming, weather patterns, and government agencies trying to shift blame. I can see your eyes start to glaze over with those last topics, but this man weaves all that into the narrative in such a way that my interest never flagged.

However, the backbone and the towering strength of Kinglake-350 lies in the people that devastating fire touched. There were many heroes that day; Acting Sergeant Roger Wood was only one of them. I think one of the vignettes that I remember best was the woman who, trying to keep the fire from destroying buildings, took pity on a shocked and staggering kangaroo, giving it a cooling shower with her hose. It's these personal details that made my heart beat faster. That made me try to turn the pages as fast as the fire was consuming everything in its path.

Kinglake-350 is absolutely marvelous, and one of the best books I've read this year. Adrian Hyland has done it again.
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cathyskye | outras 7 resenhas | Dec 25, 2023 |
In Adrian Hyland’s latest crime novel, Jesse Redpath is back, stationed in a new town during a time of stormy weather. Review at: Newtown Review of Books
 
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austcrimefiction | Dec 13, 2023 |

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Obras
5
Membros
387
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#62,499
Avaliação
4.0
Resenhas
41
ISBNs
45
Idiomas
2
Favorito
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