The Creeper by Margaret Hickey is set in the small mountain town of Edenville in Victoria’s high country. For the past decade the town has been haunted by the horrific murders of five hikers up on Jagged Ridge.
Also found dead near the scene, was bushland loner, Bill ‘Creeper’ Durant, a skillful deer-hunter, and a man well-known in the community for stalking campers . . .
The case was deemed a murder-suicide and closed.
As its ten-year anniversary draws near, Detective Constable Sally White, the only officer at Edenville’s small police station, becomes drawn into the strange, dark world of the notorious Durant family. A potential police cover up, and secrets kept by the victims, could lead to the killer’s identity.
Lex Durant, for instance, has begun to publicly protest his brother’s innocence and to accuse the police of persecution.
As Sally reviews the original investigation, hoping to prove him wrong, it becomes glaringly clear that each murdered hiker had skeletons in their closet – and possible enemies in their past . . .
This is a riveting, and extremely complex, murder mystery with more twists and turns than the mountain terrain, which takes the form of another living being in the narrative.
The small town is home to characters, both good, but also very bad! Sally discovers links that have come to bind them over the years, and events that took some to the very edges of depravity and beyond.
This is an intricately woven and electrifying must-read for 2024!
ISBN: 9781761342028
The Creeper is available in paperback, e-book and audiobook.
About Margaret Hickey
Margaret Hickey is an award-winning author and playwright from North East Victoria. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and is deeply interested in rural lives and communities. She is the author of Cutters End, Stone Town and Broken Bay.
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