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Hero

The gripping new thriller from the author of OUTBACK
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Following the dramatic fallout from his last case, DS Lucas Walker is getting to grips with his new role in the small outback town of Katima when the body of a young man is found hanging in the park. What at first looks like a tragic... Read More
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Returning home to rural Queensland, sidelined detective DS Lucas Walker must risk everything to uncover the corruption linking three deadly cases.

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Following the dramatic fallout from his last case, DS Lucas Walker is getting to grips with his new role in the small outback town of Katima when the body of a young man is found hanging in the park.

What at first looks like a tragic suicide soon has Walker on alert, and when a connection with another death emerges, he and his young partner throw themselves into the case.

And then a brutal murder changes everything. The victim is Caden Conroy, Australian cricketing hero, and the nature of his death leads to an unparalleled media frenzy.

When Walker is sidelined by Brisbane Homicide, he must go his own way to unpick the lies and corruption at the heart of these cases. Only then will he know if they are connected. But at what cost?

With his own family in freefall, DS Lucas Walker faces one of his toughest cases yet in this gripping, bestselling Australian crime series – for fans of Jane Harper, Cara Hunter, and Chris Hammer.

Hero by Patricia Wolf

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781786587923

Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 July 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Echo

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 432

About the Author

Patricia Wolf grew up in outback Australia, in the mining town of Mount Isa in far northwest Queensland, and now lives in Berlin. She likes whisky and strong coffee, busy cities, surf beaches and wild places. A journalist for almost twenty years, Patricia is a regular contributor to newspapers including the Guardian, the Financial Times and the Daily Telegraph. She was formerly a design columnist at the Independent, and the Lisbon correspondent for Monocle magazine.

IG: @patricia_wolf_crime

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