Blood Moon

Rich people come here and they donât want to see mad people running around the bush killing doctors.â 
The Blue Mountains, 1912: two wealthy young women, patients at a sanitorium, take a walk with their psychiatrist. The next day the psychiatrist is found, stabbed, at the base of a cliff in the thick bushland outside Katoomba. The women are gone.
The body is found by Gus Hawkins, a former soldier and mounted trooper who is desperately in love with one of the missing patients. Visibly wounded and traumatised by war and police work, Gus is known as the âmad trooperâ. But in this investigation, where fear and guilt make doctors, detectives and wealthy families as erratic as the patients they claim to help, perhaps the âmad trooperâ is the sanest of them all.
In this third in award-winning Gus Hawkins series, Pip Fioretti further establishes herself as a master of atmosphere and character. Extensive research is channelled into an intense who-done-it where the violent foundations of the society we live in today are revealed in all their complexity. Blood Moon is both a murder mystery and searing depiction of the crimes committed in the name of healing the mad.