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Moonlight Downs / Adrian Hyland.

by Hyland, Adrian.

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Soho Crime, 2008, c2006.

Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction

Central Australia -- Fiction.

Hyland, Adrian. Emily Tempest investigations ; 1.

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322 p. ; 20 cm.

"First published in Austrailia by the Text Publishing Company under the title Diamond Dove."--T.p. verso.

"An Emily Tempest Investigation"--Front cover.

"Emily Tempest has been away from Australia for a long time--university, travel, dead-end jobs. Findng trouble all over the world. Now she is back at Moonlight Downs, the community where she grew up, half in the Aboriginal world, half in the white. And true to form, she soon finds trouble. An old friend, the leader of the Moonlight Downs mob, has been brutally murdered and mutilated. An old enemy, a renagade aboriginal sorcerer, is the obvious suspect. Then Emily starts asking questions. he may be a loner who clings to traditional ways, he may have disagreed about assimilation; but in her opinion, that doen't make Blake Japanangka a murderer. But if Blake is not guilty of the crime, who is? And where does Emily belong? Can she stay on with friends of her childhood? Or must she become part of the "whitefellers" world now? --Inside front jacket.

Mystery fiction.

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