Guy Fawkes Night

It’s 1968 in the sleepy country town of Mitchell. Anton Dragic’s body is found in the smoking ruins of the Sandpiper reception centre where the local football club had just held its end of year celebrations.

As Senior Sergeant Lloyd Cole and Senior Constable Christine Sheridan probe the suspicious death they uncover disturbing evidence about the murdered man’s dark practices as the number of suspects mount.

There’s the Sandpiper’s owners, Mark and Gary Weaver, the corrupt shire councillors, the fruit shop owner Henderson, the backers of the Early Settlers housing estate, local farmer Tito Cavallo and marijuana-growing orchardists, among others.

Then there’s the dead man’s own murky past in wartime Yugoslavia.

The investigation comes to a head on Guy Fawkes Night as several more fires erupt, including one that takes the life of a suspect in Dragic’s death.

As Cole and Sheridan untangle the mystery even they aren’t prepared for what is finally revealed.