Black River

During a brutal Sydney summer, the body of a young woman is found on the grounds of an exclusive boarding school on the Parramatta River, staged in a way that echoes a string of unsolved killings attributed to a predator the media calls the Blue Moon Killer.

Detective Sergeant Rose Riley leads the hunt, while crime reporter Adam Bowman, who grew up on the school grounds where his father was a groundskeeper, finds himself pulled into the case from the other side. As Rose works the investigation and Adam digs into the school's buried history, the two edge closer to a killer, and to secrets from Adam's own childhood that someone would kill to keep hidden.

Matthew Spencer's award-winning debut is a taut, atmospheric Australian crime thriller and the first in the Rose Riley series.