Geoff Parkes

A missing woman . . . a townful of suspects. The haunting debut crime novel that transports the reader back to the 1980s and a small rural town in New Zealand. She wasn't the first and she wouldn't be the last; swallowed into the deep, dark recesses of the King Country bush, never to be seen again. It's January 1983....

When the Deep, Dark Bush Swallows You Whole is a tale of a missing woman and a townful of suspects. This haunting debut crime novel by Geoff Parkes transports readers back to the 1980s and a small rural town in New Zealand. 'She wasn't the first and she wouldn't be the last; swallowed into the deep, dark recesses of the...

Set in the 1990s in New Zealand's King Country, The First Law of the Bush is the scintillating new rural noir from the author of When The Deep, Dark Bush Swallows You Whole. It's a beautiful day to be alive, Bill Dickerson thought, seconds before he tumbled from the viaduct onto the jagged rocks below . . . His awful...