Geoff Parkes for Shellharbour Library

Join us at City Library in our first visiting author event of 2026, with crime novelist Geoff Parkes!

Geoff Parkes new rural noir set in New Zealand’s rugged King Country, The First Law of the Bush is the captivating sequel to When the Deep, Dark Bush Swallows You Whole.

A year after Bill Dickerson fell to his death on a worksite, his widow has received no explanation about what happened. She hires Ryan Bradley, who has just returned to Nashville as a lawyer, to get answers. Was it suicide? An accident? Or murder? In small towns, nothing is quite what it seems. And for one Nashville resident the wrong question will come at a deadly price . . .