An Ill Wind by Margaret Hickey - ISBN: 9781761342066
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Wind farm’s deadly secrets: a small town’s darkest storm.
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An Ill Wind

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    384 pages

  • Release Date

    28 July 2026

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Summary

The exciting new rural crime novel from the bestselling author of Broken Bay and The Creeper.

When a massive wind farm is erected on its outskirts, a small Victorian town is ripped apart in the deadliest of ways.

High on a hill above the small Victorian town of Carrabeen, 300 wind turbines constantly spin. Except one is now deadly still - a body hanging from its huge white blade.

Detective Sergeants Belinda Burney and Will Lovell are shocked to discover the dead man is…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781761342066
ISBN-10:1761342061
Author:Margaret Hickey
Publisher:Penguin Random House Australia
Imprint:Penguin Random House Australia
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:28 July 2026
Weight:276g
Dimensions:197mm x 128mm x 24mm
About The Author

Margaret Hickey

Margaret Hickey is an award-winning author and playwright from North East Victoria. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing and is deeply interested in rural lives and communities.

She is the author of six crime novels:

  • Cutters End
  • Stone Town
  • Broken Bay
  • The Creeper
  • An Ill Wind
  • Cold River

She has also published a collection of short stories, Rural Dreams.

Cutters End was awarded the BAD Crime Sydney Festival’s Danger Prize and was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for First Fiction. Margaret won the Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction in 2025 for The Creeper.

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