The first Rowland Sinclair mysteryShortlisted for Commonwealth Writers PrizeWealthy Australian artist Rowland Sinclair enjoys a comfortably bohemian existence which he shares with old allies a poet, a fellow painter and a brazen sculptress.It s the early 1930s and a great Depression is engulfing the world, spawning misery and discontent. Tensions are mounting as the Far Right makes inroads which threaten national stability.Rowland's comfortable idyll is shattered when a vicious murder exposes a treacherous conspiracy... one which he and his redoubtable colleagues find themselves obliged to investigate.Sulari Gentill expertly weaves real events into her tension-fuelled murder mysteries. Rowland Sinclair and his friends are destined to become long-haul companions for lovers of mystery fiction and world history.'A sparkling crime series... Evelyn Waugh meets Agatha Christie...' - The Age'Gentill has turned her deft touch to weave little-known details of Australian political intrigue into an engrossing, easy-read mystery novel' - Daily Telegraph