Water Covers All Sins by James Marsh

Book Description

Secondhand. Fair condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Protective plastic covering. Remnants of date due slip on half-title page, now covered by blank white ex libris sticker. Wear to page corners and edges. Preliminary pages have started to come away from the binding and are have been repaired with tape.

Banksiadale was an idyllic timber mill town in the southwest of Western Australia, near Dwellingup and Pinjarra. In its heyday, climaxing in the early 1960s, it was the gem of all mill towns, with its own electricity supply, piped fresh water to all houses, and a peaceful, well-behaved community that did not even need a resident policeman. Today, it does not exist.

Everything changed in 1963 when the mill mysteriously burnt down, all workers had to leave, and the mill houses were swallowed up and covered by the waters of a new dam, the South Dandalup Dam. Other problems emerged when it was discovered some 40 years later that two local residents had been murdered and disposed of in a mill house, which was submerged along with other buildings when the dam was flooded.

Three detectives must painstakingly examine various clues to track down the killers in this cold case.

Historical fiction based on the author's own experiences living in Banksiadale in the 1950s.