Yuwonderie’s seven founding families have lorded it over their district for a century, growing ever more rich and powerful.
But now-in startling circumstances-one of their own is found dead in a ditch and homicide detectives Ivan Lucic and Nell Buchanan are sent to investigate.
Could the murder be connected to the execution of the victim’s friend thirty years ago-another member of The Seven-or even to the long-forgotten story of a servant girl on the brink of the Great War?
What are the secrets The Seven are so desperate to keep hidden?
With the killer still on the loose and events spiralling out of control, the closer Ivan and Nell get to discovering the truth, the more dangerous their investigation becomes. Can they crack the case before more people die?
The Seven is a compelling thriller filled with intrigue, emotional depth and an evocative sense of place-where nothing is ever quite what it seems. Chris Hammer, the acclaimed and bestselling author of the international bestsellers Scrublands, Treasure & Dirt and The Tilt,can take his place among the world’s finest crime writers.
Have just discovered this Author, recommended by my son. Wow the stories have certainly captured me. Leave my housework for days and venture to another space with these stories. I get so involved with the characters too. Have been to Western Queensland so imagine the countryside mentioned in many stories. The local Library has these books but many are not there ’cause no doubt other readers are captivated also. Many thanks Chris for sharing your imagination.
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Just reading “Legacy”. Wow, absolutely taken with Chris’s capacity to convey the unique Australian landscape, its diversity, and the characters who inhabit it. Any potential student of outback Australian dialogue, would do well to read and enjoy Chris’s command of the Aussie vernacular.