{"product_id":"the-stoning-peter-papathanasiou-9781529416992","title":"The Stoning: The Crime Debut of the Year the Times","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eOutback noir has a new star\" MARK SANDERSON, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Deliciously dark\" ALISON FLOOD, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Outback noir with the noir dialled right up. I loved it.\" CHRIS HAMMER\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Political crime fiction of the highest order\" JOAN SMITH, \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA small town in outback Australia wakes to an appalling crime.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A local schoolteacher is found taped to a tree and stoned to death. Suspicion instantly falls on the refugees at the new detention centre on Cobb's northern outskirts. Tensions are high, between whites and the local indigenous community, between immigrants and the townies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Still mourning the recent death of his father, Detective Sergeant George Manolis returns to his childhood hometown to investigate. Within minutes of his arrival, it's clear that Cobb is not the same place he left. Once it thrived, but now it's a poor and derelict dusthole, with the local police chief it deserves. And as Manolis negotiates his new colleagues' antagonism, and the simmering anger of a community destroyed by alcohol and drugs, the ghosts of his past begin to flicker to life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Vivid, pacy and almost dangerously atmospheric, \u003ci\u003eThe Stoning\u003c\/i\u003e is the first in a new series of outback noir featuring DS Manolis, himself an outsider, and a good man in a world gone to hell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Papathanasiou\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 152941699X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781529416992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Quercus Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Peter Papathanasiou","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46334667391231,"sku":"9781529416992","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ae41256b-aa5d-4fbe-8ff3-6c881106c2e7.jpg?v=1731467448","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-stoning-peter-papathanasiou-9781529416992","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}