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River City

Name: River City
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SKU: 9781460769768
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A new dark crime thriller from the Winner of The Australian Fiction Prize

By Troy Henderson

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A missing kingpin. A reluctant son. Enemies on all sides - and one explosive underworld war. The 2025 Australian Fiction Prize winner is an unputdownable, take-no-prisoners thriller for all fans of Animal Kingdom, Gabriel Bergmoser and Jack Reacher. In Brisbane's criminal underbelly, chaos is the only... Read More

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A missing kingpin. A reluctant son. Enemies on all sides - and one explosive underworld war.

The 2025 Australian Fiction Prize winner is an unputdownable, take-no-prisoners thriller for all fans of Animal Kingdom, Gabriel Bergmoser and Jack Reacher.

In Brisbane's criminal underbelly, chaos is the only constant.

When feared crime boss Jack Cavarly mysteriously vanishes, his reluctant son Rain is dragged into a world he's spent years avoiding. Between a volatile brother, a dysfunctional crew, and enemies circling like vultures, Rain is barely keeping everything together when a case of mistaken identity threatens to bring everything crashing down.

A disgraced cop chasing redemption becomes entangled in the Cavarlys' bloody turf war. A ruthless rival sees her chance to strike. And a wildcard with a killer vendetta is ready to burn it all to the ground.

Darkly funny, razor sharp, and drenched in tension, River City is a gritty Australian crime thriller where loyalty is fragile, violence is inevitable, and survival is never guaranteed.

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ISBN: 9781460769768

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 December 2026

Country: Australia

Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Audience: General / adult

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Pages: 272

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About the Author

Troy Henderson is a fiction writer from Brisbane, Australia, where he has lived his whole life aside from a two-year stint in London. He has a Bachelor of Popular Music and a Masters in Journalism. Troy's twenties and early thirties were spent playing in bands and immersed in music, and he turned to novel writing seriously in his mid-thirties. His first book, Head Grenade, was shortlisted in the Hawkeye Publishing Manuscript Development Prize and the Queensland Writers Centre's Adaptable and Publishable Programs, respectively. Head Grenade was published through Hawkeye Publishing in October 2023. His short stories have longlisted in the Australian Writers' Centre Furious Fiction competition, and placed in the GenreCon Short Story competition, and FLEUR Flash Fiction Contest. In 2024, he was commissioned to contribute to the anthology Is This Working? and also appeared at the 2024 Brisbane Writers Festival.

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