In the 1870's gold brought colonisation and conflict. The rush ripped out the gold leaving nothing but plundered, blood soaked earth. Read Hector Holthouse's River of Gold and you will understand.
Today the north remains isolated from the southern capitals. Death still leaves little trace. The heat and flooding rains sees to that.
Animals do their work too. Wild boars plough the land, crocodiles haunt the creeks and sharks cruise the coastal waters.
Lest there be any doubt about it think about this. In 2009 police officer Mick Isles left his Ayr home and disappeared without trace. In 2012 gold prospector Bruce Schuler vanished near the Palmer River. Property owners were convicted of his murder but his body has never been found. In 2015 Leisha O'Donnell disappeared from a houseboat in the Hinchinbrook Channel never be be seen again.
It wasn't hard to imagine a legal thriller set in north Queensland. And having once lived and worked there I had the knowledge to bring it to life. Murdering Point was born.
Animals do their work too. Wild boars plough the land, crocodiles haunt the creeks and sharks cruise the coastal waters.
Lest there be any doubt about it think about this. In 2009 police officer Mick Isles left his Ayr home and disappeared without trace. In 2012 gold prospector Bruce Schuler vanished near the Palmer River. Property owners were convicted of his murder but his body has never been found. In 2015 Leisha O'Donnell disappeared from a houseboat in the Hinchinbrook Channel never be be seen again.
It wasn't hard to imagine a legal thriller set in north Queensland. And having once lived and worked there I had the knowledge to bring it to life. Murdering Point was born.
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