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  • Published: 29 April 2025
  • ISBN: 9781761049774
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $34.99

Burning Mountain





When the bones of a teenage boy are discovered on Mount Wingen, Detective Rebecca Giles dives deep into a missing persons case that has haunted her rural town for twenty years . . .

Five went up. Only four came down . . .
In April 2006, fifteen-year-old Oliver went hiking to the lookout on Burning Mountain - and vanished without trace.

His schoolfriends – Bob, Bell, Phil and Paul – were the last ones to see him on the trek, yet the teenagers were never able to explain his disappearance.

Almost twenty years later, Detective Rebecca Giles is called to bushland on nearby Mount Wingen. There a skull has been dug up, reviving the mystery that has haunted the Upper Hunter area for years.

Giles is convinced that they have finally found the missing boy, and that his four friends – all now in their mid-thirties – have always known much more than they revealed. In particular, about the argument that caused Oliver to head down the mountain on his own.

But when she discusses the case with her father, retired Superintendent Benjamin Giles, another suspect is thrown into the mix. One that for Giles is uncomfortably close to home . . .

'Dark, wild and cracking with tension, Burning Mountain leaves other outback noir titles in the red dust.' Jack Heath, bestselling author of Kill Your Husbands

  • Published: 29 April 2025
  • ISBN: 9781761049774
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $34.99

About the author

Darcy Tindale

Darcy Tindale is an actor, author, theatresports player and director, and has appeared in television commercials, film and on stage. She has written comedy for radio, stage, media personalities, comedians, and theatre restaurants. Her short stories, plays and poems have been published in anthologies, journals, and magazines. The Fall Between is her first novel.

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Praise for Burning Mountain

Dark, wild and cracking with tension, Burning Mountain leaves other outback noir titles in the red dust.

Jack Heath, bestselling author of Kill Your Husbands
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