Chris Hammer: Cover the Bones, 9781472295712, Wildfire, hardback, ebook available 

Chris Hammer is an award winning Australian crime writer whom I just read for the first time. Great plot, great writing and not quite as noir as Disher 's Hirsch series or Jane Harper, authors i love,  Will definitively read more of Hammer's  crime novels. 

Nell Buchanan, a female detective and her male counterpart Ivan Lucic, are the chief protagonist in the murder investigation of Athol Hasluck's death, a member of one of the seven dynasty families in the town of Yuwonderie. He was found stabbed & tortured in the river. What soon becomes apparent is a web of old secrets carrying into the present with the unresolved death of a young promising heir, Davis, of one of the great estates in the 1990ties .  Told thru the voices of the detectives, an Aborigine maid , Bessie, in 1910,  and in 1993 by Davis, whose investigation into the families history becomes a threat to his life, this makes for a complex plot that keeps you fully engaged throughout the unfolding of the mystery. Love it !