The Bluffs, a great debut novel from Australian author, Kyle Perry, is set in the Great Western Tiers in
northern Tasmania. The mountains have a foreboding reputation especially since the
separate disappearance of five girls thirty years previously. Added to this tension is the legend of the Hungry Man said to haunt the mountains.
When Detective Con Badenhorst arrives in the area to oversee the search for four teenage girls missing on a school
hiking excursion, it soon becomes obvious that something more sinister has occurred.
This book is more than just a crime novel. As the plot unfolds Limestone Creek is clearly a community of secrets complicated by small town politics and police corruption. Additionally, social media appears to be affecting the lives of young people and the town as a whole. The demons faced by many of the characters plus the dark presence of the surrounding mountains affect attempts to solve the mystery of the missing girls.
A multitude of twists and turns keep the reader in the dark until the
end making this novel a great addition to the excellent expanding genre of Aussie Noir.
Many thanks to Better Reading and Penguin Books for providing me with a proof copy of this book to review. #BRPreview
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