The Fifth Bullet : A Kularook Mystery (Paperback)

In January 1931 ex-soldier Mounted Constable Bowler Brown is stationed in a small South Australian town. When Agatha Benson reluctantly returns to Kularook and her hostile husband Bowler's summer heats up. And when Agatha survives a tragic murder-suicide Bowler is left struggling for answers.

January, 1931.

Mounted Constable Bowler Brown, ex-light-horseman from the Great War, is stationed in Kularook, a small South Australian town. Then Agatha, who two years before ran away from her stifling marriage to Lew Benson, returns to him.

As the summer heats up Bowler tries to keep the peace between factious locals while Agatha, on the isolated farm, struggles to retain her sanity in the face of Lew and his family's hostility. An old friend tries to help, but instead raises tensions to dangerous levels.

When tragedy strikes, Bowler has to find out what really happened. Was it murder-plus-suicide? Were four shots fired from Lew Benson's rifle? Or were there five?

And who is trying to kill Agatha?