From the winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction.
When Toby Bowman vanishes, his brother Lachlan retraces a road trip to the last place Toby phoned from – a remote northern town called Jasper Cliff. There, Lachlan finds himself marooned at the dying town’s pub, and soon learns that his brother is just one of many to have gone missing in recent years. Like Toby, his brother becomes obsessed with finding the Rift, a deep hole in a ravine somewhere in the hills. But what will Lachlan learn, and what will he see, if he stares into the Rift, too?
PRAISE FOR JOSH KEMP
‘Kemp writes with a compelling voice, the kind you want to follow into dark places, no matter how gruesome things get.’ Australian Book Review
‘… impressive, propulsive … laced with dark humour and a menacing undercurrent of violence that builds towards a brutal, vividly rendered conclusion.’ The West Australian
Awards
Fogarty Literary Award (Shortlisted 2023)