City of Sin by Sean O’Leary

In the stifling heat of a Sydney summer, young Rhia is being hunted.

She was in the wrong place at the wrong time; now, both the police and a right-wing group of fanatics are after her. The only one on her side is Indigenous investigator Carter Thompson from the Prosecutors Office.

In Rhia's possession is a stolen USB full of secrets that could destroy the New Light Church. After NLC sets their attack dog, P.I. Sally Bois on the case, Thompson and Bois clash and race against time to find Rhia.

With a dangerous plan in motion, can Rhia and Carter clear her name - or is it already too late?

City Of Sin is the first book in Sean O'Leary's riveting crime series set in Sydney, Australia.

About the author

Sean O’Leary is a writer from Melbourne, Australia. He has published two literary short story collections, ‘My Town’ and ‘Walking’. His literary novella ‘Drifting’ was the winner of the ‘The Great Novella Search 2016’ and published in 2017. He self published ‘The Heat’ his crime novella set in Darwin and Bangkok in 2019. ‘Drifting’ and ‘The Heat’ will be re-published by Next Chapter in 2022/23. His second crime novella ‘Preston Noir’ was published in 2020 in ‘Crime Double Feature…Neo Noir’ from the indie press ‘Zombie Pirate Publishing.

’ His crime fiction collection ‘Wonderland‘ was recently published by the down and dirty folk at Close to the Bone Publishing in the United Kingdown. His new crime novel ‘Going All the Way’ and short story collection ‘Tokyo Jazz & Other Stories’ are both be published by Next Chapter and out now.

 City of Sin is the first book in his new Sydney crime series featuring Indigenous investigator Carter Thompson.

 He likes to walk all over the face of the earth, travel as often as he can, supports Melbourne Football Club (a life sentence) enjoys art but knows nothing about it, is a film buff and writes like a demon.

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Review

‘City of Sin’ shows the seedy side of Sydney in a compelling and hard-hitting new series from Sean O’Leary. It was the premise of an Aboriginal cop that drew me into this story as it wasn't something I had read before but before long it was the plot that had me hooked! Its noir aspects, great feel of location and characters that intrigued me made this a great read.

Rhia is a sex worker and when a customer dies literally on top of her, she has to go into hiding as people are hunting her down. She has the police chasing her as well as the New Light church as she took a USB stick from the man and the information on it could bring the church down! Indigenous investigator Carter ‘Cash’ Thompson from the Prosecutor's Office is also searching but he is the only one who cares about her and her safety. Who will find her first?

Cash is interesting all right and I feel that he will develop into a nuanced character as the series progresses as I am sure there is a lot of background material that could be mined for future books! Rhia was my favourite though, you couldn't help but root for her and her family!

I really like the artwork on the cover as it fits with the noir aspects and it's different from the norm!

Let me know if you pick this one up!