Interview with Lisa Ellery - Hot Ground

For crime fiction fans of Dervla McTiernan and Jane Harper comes an outback police procedural where gold fever takes a deadly turn.

In the middle of the night in a remote part of Western Australia’s goldfields, the thud of a mallet on a marker peg sets off a chain reaction that unearths secrets long buried.

Detective Jessy Parkin – sent to policing purgatory in the aftermath of a tainted investigation – is tasked with finding Max Cochrane, a veteran prospector who has vanished into thin air.

What begins with a concerned daughter’s plea for help soon burgeons into a mystery as shapeshifting as a desert mirage. Fortunes are being built on the back of Kalgoorlie’s coveted gold, but the truth might be the rarest find of all.

‘Hot Ground is an atmospheric goldfields mystery rich in authentic investigative detail. Jessy Parkin is a tenacious sleuth, a heroine for these twisted troubled times’, says Alan Carter, fellow Fremantle Press crime thriller writer, who knows a thing or two about the genre.

Lisa’s knowledge of the goldfields’ terrain and the law, especially mining law, richly colour the narrative and twist the plot.

We love how Lisa doesn’t leave a thread untied at the gripping conclusion to Hot Ground.

You can order Lisa’s books right here at Fremantle Press.

Our Editor, Michael Barker, was pleased to catch up with Lisa Ellery this week to talk about Hot Ground, her second thriller after her debut Private Prosecution, and the ins and outs of being a crime thriller author.

By Michael Barker, Editor, Fremantle Shipping News

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