Diamond Dove (novel)

Diamond Dove
Author Adrian Hyland
Country Australia
Language English
Series Emily Tempest
Genre novel
Publisher Text Publishing, Australia
Publication date
2006
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 322
ISBN 1921145307
Followed by Gunshot Road

Diamond Dove (2006) is a crime novel by Australian author Adrian Hyland. It is the first in the author's series of novels featuring the recurring character Emily Tempest. It won the Best First Novel category of the 2007 Ned Kelly Awards.

Plot summary

Emily Tempest, the daughter of a white miner and his black wife, returns to her childhood home, Moonlight Downs in the Northern Territory, after completing her schooling at an Adelaide boarding school. Her homecoming is impacted by the murder of Lincoln, the local elder. The police are baffled but Tempest makes use of her unique background to track down the killer.

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Reviews

Mindy Laube in the Sydney Morning Herald noted that the novel is "popular literature of the stylish and substantial variety".[1]

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