Hell to Pay

Constable Paul HirschhausenHirschis a recently demoted detective sent from Adelaide, Australias southernmost booming metropolis, to Tiverton, a one-road town in rustic, backwater wool and wheat country three hours north. Hirsch is more than just a disgraced cop, a rumored whistle-blowerinternal investigations is still trying to convict him of something, even if it means planting evidence, and someone has a bullet theyd like to put in his head, as has been made clear by the pistol cartridge left in his mailbox. Hirsch is just trying to keep his job, but the tiny town of Tiverton has more crime than one lone cop should have to handle. The stagnant economy, rural isolation, and entrenched racism and misogyny mean every case Hirsch investigates is a new basket of snakes. And when the body of a sixteen-year-old local girl is found on the side of the highway, the situation gets even more sinister. Whether or not he finds her killer, theres going to be hell to pay.