Böcker av Neill Florence

Inspector Coleman got to know the highways and byways of the Rockhampton Police District because he'd served there for the term of his life as a police inspector. On retirement, he moved to the Serendipity Retirement Village in Brisbane and after a year as an undercover detective in the village, and a romance that wins him a new wife, he is able to fulfil his retirement dream of putting his most interesting cases in a book.Concerned about his privacy, he changes his book name to Cole and Inspector Cole's cadavers turn up all over the Rockhampton Police District from the young man's body in a locked bedroom in Bluff, to the Police Sergeant knocked out and knifed near the Farnborough Sand dunes.Over the years, police tape blossomed to delineate murder in erstwhile happy public places like Rockhampton's main street and a public bar in Yeppoon, or a bus shelter where tourists came and went, or a meat works that is the life and resource of a community. But what about the police tape that denied entry to a university student's room? Nothing unusual about that, there'd been a cadaver in there, but the University was the Kent State University on the edge of London. What was Inspector Cole doing over there?

Georg and Gretchen Schillingberg continue their pursuit of happiness across Australia as they travel from Townsville, on the coast, to Aramac in central Queensland with Georg's brother, Johannes. Gretchen has been redeemed from the hopeless drudgery of service to a cruel mistress, and she and her family have begun a truly new life.Before the journey, the group is persuaded to accept the assistance and protection of a bullocky named Joel Skipton and his Aboriginal assistant, Bindi. They were assured that there would be no Aboriginal attacks during the trek. But Joel's reputation as an immoral, antisocial, and unreliable person catches up with him, leaving the family to face the dangerous trip on their own. Gretchen, who has suffered social rejection in Germany, refuses to write off the native people and recognizes that there is a mystery surrounding the landscape they are passing through. Now these newcomers to the land must reach their own conclusions and find a way to achieve peace and harmony in the place they now call home.In this novel, the second in a series, an immigrant family from Germany crosses the Australian bush in search of a new home, facing dangers along the way.