Craig Godfrey – författare

This adventure continues…. Nineteenth Century Van Demonian sleuth, Caspian Hunter, is a colonial lawman deeply immersed in the life and crimes of Hobart Town, where convicts transported from Mother England form a majority of the population. Caspian and his decidedly unconventional associates are sworn to uphold the law where lawlessness is almost a way of life. The fledgling colony includes newly pardoned convicts – ‘ticket of leave men’ – on a sort of parole. Misfits and unsavoury characters come this remote outpost of the British Empire to get as far away as possible from whatever lives they seek to leave behind. But by the middle of the century, free settlers are arriving in ever greater numbers from Britain. Hobart Town is blessed with one of the world’s most beautiful deep-water harbours, so it also attracts sailors and whalers. And it is rapidly becoming prosperous. There are inns aplenty, and a growing number of enterprising ladies are skilled in the arts of making sailors, whalers, gentlemen and even lawmen briefly happier and certainly poorer.  This is Caspian’s town. A murder most foul committed with the most blunt of instruments, a hot flat iron, leads Caspian to the prison hell of Port Arthur, traveling on a railway man-powered by convict slaves, and an illicit liaison with a British Army officer’s wife. The motive for murder: a diamond worth a king’s ransom, hidden in a most incongruous place. Tasmania’s master storyteller, Craig Godfrey, in this, his 16th novel, takes the reader on an adventure populated by characters, crimes and conflicts set on this beautiful island at the edge of the world. It will leave you wanting more.

Nineteenth Century Van Daimian sleuth, Caspian Hunter, is a colonial lawman deeply immersed in the life and crimes of Hobart Town, where convicts transported from Mother England form a majority of the population. Caspian and his decidedly unconventional associates are sworn to uphold the law where lawlessness is almost a way of life.

But maintaining law and order is not a simple task, as Caspian records in his own words in this, his ongoing saga.

Tasmania''s history will never be the same.

Vampires! The ignorant rant, as mysterious murder victims appear around Hobart Town''s environs with inexplicable puncture marks to their throats. Anarchy threatens the island.

It''s 1858. Free settlers are arriving in greater numbers. Hobart Town is blessed with a beautiful deep-water harbour. The whalers arrive. Merchants thrive. The economy is prosperous, bringing with it enterprising ladies and all the riff-raff searching a better life.

Meanwhile Caspian Hunter is under increasing pressure to solve this most bizarre mystery. Pressure from the governor down to the illiterate he has chosen to protect.