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Booker winner Tom Keneally and his daughter the journalist Meg Keneally continue their Monsarrat series with this second instalment, in which Monsarrat must investigate the murder of the sinister superintendent of a women's prison.

In an Australian penal colony at the edge of the known world, gentleman convict Hugh Monserrat has risen from convicted forger to trusted clerk of the settlement's commandant. Not long after the commandant heads off in search of a rumoured river, his beautiful wife Honora falls ill with a sickness the doctor is unable to identify. And when Honora dies, it becomes clear she has been slowly poisoned. Monsarrat and perceptive housekeeper Mrs Mulr...

The first title in this gripping and historical new crime series, from the Booker Prize-winner and his eldest daughter. Fast-paced and witty, it follows Hugh Monsarrat, who must unmask the real killer behind his wife's murder in order to save his friend from the hangman's noose.