Shadow City

Name: Shadow City
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Natalie Conyer
ISBN: 9781399183659

Author: Natalie Conyer

Narrator: John Telfer

Unabridged: 9 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Aurora Audio Books

Published: 10/30/2024

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

Sydney, Australia: The body of a young woman is found in Chinatown. She's been beaten, tortured - and tattooed with the image of a sun. Called to the scene, Sergeant Jackie Rose asks herself whether this was a drug murder, or something else. But before her investigation can get underway, she is ordered to hand the case over to the Australian Federal Police. Cape Town, South Africa: A local girl recruited to study in Australia has fallen off the radar. Veteran detective Schalk Lourens - recently suspended from duty - has already made plans to visit his daughter in Sydney, with emigration in mind. He decides to search for the missing girl while he is there. Jackie and Schalk join forces, exposing a trail of corruption and crime stretching from the foreshore of the city's iconic harbour, back to South Africa, and across the world.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Veronica ⭐️ on October 18, 2024

Shadow City is my first book by Natalie Conyer and as soon as I'd finished I was searching out more of her work. Shadow City is set in both Sydney, Australia and Cape Town, South Africa. Conyer keenly portrays her characters love for their hometowns and expertly depicts how hard it is to leave your h......more

Goodreads review by jeff popple on August 23, 2024

Natalie Conyer drew considerable praise, and a Ned Kelly Award, for her excellent first novel, Present Tense, which dived convincingly into the maelstrom of modern South Africa. Now with her second novel, Shadow City she continues her examination of the complexity of politics and policing in that co......more

Goodreads review by J on October 08, 2024

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this eARC. “Shadow City” by Natalie Conyer is a riveting crime thriller that seamlessly blends the gritty realities of police work with the atmospheric tension of a cross-continental mystery. This novel, penned by a Ned Kelly award-winning author, takes reade......more

Goodreads review by Robert on September 04, 2024

Shadow City is Natalie Conyer’s follow up to her award winning debut Present Tense. Present Tense was set in South Africa and focussed on South African issues. In Shadow City, Conyer brings her Cape Town police detective Schalk Laurens to Sydney in search of a missing girl, allowing her to dig into......more

Goodreads review by Shireen on October 09, 2024

4 stars This is the second book by Conyer featuring the character of Schalk Lourens, a veteren detective from Cape Town, South Africa, but you really don't need to have read the first book to get this one. It is a gripping thriller that starts as a bit of a slow burn but then really takes off with som......more