The Carnival is Over
Mike Goodenough #2
Greg Woodland
Reviewed by Helen
I didn’t read the first book in this series, but that did not stop me from thoroughly enjoying this fabulous story, set in a small country town Moorabool near Armidale and in 1971, this one pulled me in from the start till the end, a great crime, mystery story that will keep you thinking.
Sergeant Mick Goodenough is called out the apparent suicide of the you deputy Mayor, a shocking site to find, and the local doctor says death by misadventure but Mick is thinking other things, when not long after another suicide this time a young popular woman, Christine who works at the local abattoir is found by her estranged husband and now Mick is convinced there is something going on and it is related to the abattoir.
Young Hal is seventeen and working of a debt to society by working at the abattoir and he does not like it at all, bullying seems to be rife but his supervisor Christine is very helpful and the have become friends, he is also very good friends with a young aboriginal girl Allie, but when Allie and Hal receive a message from Christine they are pulled into the mystery that is happening in Moorabool.
This is a page turner as danger lurks just about around every corner, will there be another death and will Mick get to the bottom of it all and find out who and why this is all happening, Hal is a fabulous character who is determined to help were he can even when his life is on the line he shows such strength. The characters are fabulous in this book Woodlands has bought them to life the good and the bad ones and now I need to read book one in this series and I do hope that there will be more Mick Goodenough stories this is a town I would love to revisit.
My thanks to Text Publishing and Netgalley for my copy to read and review.
Sergeant Mick Goodenough is called out the apparent suicide of the you deputy Mayor, a shocking site to find, and the local doctor says death by misadventure but Mick is thinking other things, when not long after another suicide this time a young popular woman, Christine who works at the local abattoir is found by her estranged husband and now Mick is convinced there is something going on and it is related to the abattoir.
Young Hal is seventeen and working of a debt to society by working at the abattoir and he does not like it at all, bullying seems to be rife but his supervisor Christine is very helpful and the have become friends, he is also very good friends with a young aboriginal girl Allie, but when Allie and Hal receive a message from Christine they are pulled into the mystery that is happening in Moorabool.
This is a page turner as danger lurks just about around every corner, will there be another death and will Mick get to the bottom of it all and find out who and why this is all happening, Hal is a fabulous character who is determined to help were he can even when his life is on the line he shows such strength. The characters are fabulous in this book Woodlands has bought them to life the good and the bad ones and now I need to read book one in this series and I do hope that there will be more Mick Goodenough stories this is a town I would love to revisit.
My thanks to Text Publishing and Netgalley for my copy to read and review.
5 stars
Published August 2, 2022 Text Publishing
