A Decline in Prophets by Sulari Gentill, Pantera Press, $29.99.
Travel back in time to 1932 and book yourself a first-class suite on the luxurious passenger liner RMS Aquitania, but take care, for among your fellow well-heeled passengers is an elegant ruthless killer.
Also travelling the seas in style is wealthy young Australian pastoralist and artist Rowland Sinclair and his band of bohemian friends.
He’s an old school gentleman with new ideas, but his life of polo, parties and painting is interrupted by his polite attempts to find the murderer, who seems very keen on making Rowly his next victim.
Rowland and his mates are fresh, witty and vividly alive. They make the most of 1932, socialising with movie stars Marion Davies and Cary Grant, roaring over the newly completed Sydney Harbour Bridge in a slick roadster and partying in the Blue Mountains with naughty genius artist Norman Lindsay.
An elusive killer, a charming but down-to-earth sleuth, and a glamorous historical setting, A Decline in Prophets is glossy, original and appealingly Australian.
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