Title: The stoning /
Authors: Papathanasiou, Peter,
Year: 2021
Subjects: Manolis, Georgios 'George', Fiction.; Noir fiction; Detective and mystery stories; Australian fiction; Teachers Crimes against Fiction.; Stoning Fiction.; Murder Investigation Fiction; Police Fiction; Refugees Fiction; Small cities Australia Fiction.; Homecoming Fiction.; Australian fiction; Detective and mystery stories; Detectives; Homecoming; Murder Investigation; Noir fiction; Police; Refugees; Small cities; Stoning; Teachers Crimes against; Australia
Abstract: A small town in outback Australia wakes to an appalling crime. A local schoolteacher is found taped to a tree and stoned to death. Suspicion instantly falls on the refugees at the new detention centre on Cobb's northern outskirts. Tensions are high, between whites and the local indigenous community, between immigrants and the townies. Still mourning the recent death of his father, Detective Sergeant George Manolis returns to his childhood hometown to investigate. Within minutes of his arrival, it's clear that Cobb is not the same place he left. Once it thrived, but now it's a poor and derelict dust hole, with the local police chief it deserves. And as Manolis negotiates his new colleagues' antagonism, and the simmering anger of a community destroyed by alcohol and drugs, the ghosts of his past begin to flicker to life.