A Dangerous Language by Sulari Gentill

A Dangerous Language by Sulari Gentill ISBN-13: 9781464212611 Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Released: June 9th 2020

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description from Goodreads:
When Rowland Sinclair--a well-heeled artist and amateur sleuth--volunteers his services as a pilot to fly the renowned international peace advocate, Egon Kisch, between Fremantle and Melbourne, he is unaware of how hard Australia's new Attorney General will fight to keep the "raging reporter" off Australian soil. In this, it seems, the government is not alone, as clandestine right-wing militias reconstitute into deadly strike forces. A Communist agent is murdered on the steps of Parliament House and Rowland finds himself drawn into a dangerous world of politics and assassination.

A disgraced Minister, an unidentified corpse and an old flame who will not be denied all bring their own special bedlam. Once again Rowland Sinclair stands against the unthinkable with an artist, a poet and a free-spirited sculptress by his side.


My Review:
A Dangerous Language is a mystery/suspense set in the late Fall of 1934 in Australia. This is the eighth novel in a series. You don't have to read the previous books in order to follow this one, and this book did not spoil the previous books. Murders seem to happen whenever Rowley and his friends are around, so the first part of the story involved trying to solve the murders. The mystery was a clue-based. Rowley and his friends asked questions, followed up on clues, and passed on information to the police.

A second thread in the story was that Rowley's determined to get a foreign journalist to a speaking engagement on time. This journalist has seen what's happening in Nazi Germany. No one's listening to Rowley's warnings, but maybe they'll listen to the journalist. However, there are a lot of people who don't want this man to even enter Australia. Rowley and his friends worked together to keep the man alive so that he had a chance to be heard. Interesting historical details (especially surrounding this man's arrival in Australia) were woven into the the story. The main characters were interesting, engaging people. There was a fair amount of bad language. There were no sex scenes. Overall, I'd recommend this interesting, suspenseful novel.


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