Geoff Parkes returns with his new novel, The First Law of the Bush.
The captivating sequel to When the Deep, Dark Bush Swallows You Whole, ten years on, The First Law of the Bush is Geoff Parkes’ new rural noir set in New Zealand’s rugged King Country. 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 . . .
Set in the 1990s in New Zealand’s King Country, The First Law of the Bush is the scintillating new rural noir from the author of When The Deep, Dark Bush Swallows You Whole.