The Echo of Others

By: Simon Rowell

Narrated by: Elle Mickel

Nominated for the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel

Rachael Schlank is a straight-talking detective who’s always felt like a fish out of water, bouncing between departments over the years. Now she’s finally found a home in Victoria Police's Cold Case Unit.

When a vigilante starts targeting hunters, leaving clues about a long-ago cold case, Rachael is asked to join a task force investigating the crimes...along with a former colleague whose dangerous temper has already made an impact on her life.

In order to crack the case, Rachael finds herself challenging her own ideas about justice and morality. And before it’s over, she must also face down her own history, risking it all to solve the case....

The past is never over. She will make sure of it.

©2017 Simon Rowell (P)2021 W F Howes

Critic reviews

"One of the best crime mystery books I have read. It features a female Australian detective and is set around a crime spree by a vigilante. The plot is fascinating and builds to a climax that knocked my proverbial socks off. Five stars.” (Waterstones, UK)

Writing was fine but a bit predictable

I wasn’t expecting a crime story to turn into animal rights propaganda but that’s what this book is. The storyline is ok but the stupidity about the dairy industry and “meat eaters” is pretty ridiculous.