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The boundary, Nicole Watson

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The boundary, Nicole Watson

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eng

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fiction

Main title

The boundary

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Nicole Watson

Summary

Long ago Meston Park in Brisbane's West End stood on the boundary of the city's curfew for its Aboriginal population - they were not permitted to enter the city limits at night. When the park becomes the proposed site for a multi-million development, the traditional owners, the Corrowa, vow to fight it and file a native title claim. Hours after rejecting the claim, Justice Bruce Brosnan is brutally murdered in his home. Days later the developers' lawyers are also killed. The Corrowa's matriarch, Ethel Cobb, believes the murders are the work of an ancient assassin who has returned to destroy the boundary. While the investigation forces Detective Sergeant Jason Matthews to confront his heritage, Aboriginal lawyer Miranda Eversely battles a sense of personal failure at the Corrowa's defeat. How far will it take her to the edge of self-destruction? When the premier is kidnapped, the pressure intensifies .....

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