The Scarlet Rider 12+

📙 "I really, really enjoyed the book. It was an absolute page-turner,rising tension, as well as a lovely mystery yarn."- Karen Joy Fowler--Winner of the 1997 Ditmar Award for Best NovelShortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award--A mystery within a mystery.Unemployed university graduate Mel Kirksley is hired to discover the author of an anonymous crime novel from the 1860s. What she finds is nothing less than a true-life detective story, a thinly described autobiographical tragedy set against the backdrop of the Gold Rush.As Mel digs deeper, the line between biographer and subject starts to fade, pulling Mel deeper into a maelstrom where past and present are thrown together.--"An ingenious well-paced mystery story."- Brenda Niall, The Age