{"product_id":"when-the-deep-dark-bush-swallows-you-whole-geoff-parkes","title":"When the Deep Dark Bush Swallows You Whole - Geoff Parkes","description":"\u003cp\u003eA missing woman . . . a townful of suspects. The haunting debut crime novel that transports the reader back to the 1980s and a small rural town in New Zealand, for readers of Chris Hammer, J P Pomare and Margaret Hickey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘She wasn’t the first and she wouldn’t be the last; swallowed into the deep, dark recesses of the King Country bush, never to be seen again.’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s January 1983. During his university summer break, Ryan Bradley returns to the remote town of Nashville in New Zealand’s rugged King Country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s a bittersweet trip: he’s working long, punishing hours as a woolpresser, he needs to sell his late mother’s house, and he’s increasingly feeling like an outcast in his childhood town.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut mostly he’s haunted by memories of Sanna Sovernen, a Finnish backpacker and his secret lover, who worked with him in the shearing shed the summer before - then vanished without trace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow Sanna’s sister Emilia has arrived from Finland, determined to get answers - and as he’s the workmate who reported Sanna missing, she wants Ryan’s help. Because Emilia knows her sister was not the first female traveller in the area to disappear . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished December 2, 2025\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nice Stack Of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44864023757000,"sku":null,"price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0595\/5567\/6360\/files\/WhentheDeepDarkBushSwallowsyouWhole.jpg?v=1764462628","url":"https:\/\/nicestackofbooks.myshopify.com\/products\/when-the-deep-dark-bush-swallows-you-whole-geoff-parkes","provider":"Nice Stack Of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}