Taken to the Grave

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2020
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This adventure continues...Nineteenth Century Van Demonian sleuth, Caspian Hunter, is a colonial lawman, deeply immersed in the life and crimes of Hobart Town, where convicts transported from Mother England form a majority of the population. Caspian and his decidedly unconventional associates are, sworn to uphold the law where lawlessness is almost a way of life. The fledgling colony includes newly pardoned convicts, 'ticket of leave men', on a sort of parole. Misfits and unsavory characters come this remote outpost of the British Empire to get as far away as possible from whatever lives they seek to leave behind. But, by the middle of the century, free settlers are arriving in ever greater numbers from Britain. Hobart Town is, blessed with one of the world's most beautiful deep-water harbors, so it also attracts sailors and whalers. And, it is rapidly becoming prosperous. There are inns aplenty, and a growing number of enterprising ladies, are skilled in the arts of making sailors, whalers, gentlemen and even lawmen briefly happier and certainly poorer. This is Caspian's town. A murder most foul committed with the most, blunt of instruments, a hot flat iron, leads Caspian to the prison hell of Port Arthur, traveling on a railway man-powered by convict slaves, and an illicit liaison with a British Army officer's wife. The motive for murder: a diamond worth a king's ransom, hidden in a most incongruous place. Tasmania's master storyteller, Craig Godfrey, in this, his 16th novel, takes the reader on an adventure populated by characters, crimes and conflicts set on this beautiful island at the edge of the world. It will leave you wanting more.
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