Winter has arrived in Tiverton, the outback South Australian town where Constable Paul Hirschhausen is serving his exile. There's snow on the peaks and frost on the plains-and a snowdropper in town, swiping women's underwear from clotheslines. It's a nuisance offence that leads Hirsch to more chilling crimes-of obsession, exploitation and conspiracy. And just when Hirsch thinks he's untangling the seams of trust and resentment that wind through the streets and backroads of this hard landscape-he finds himself at the centre of them all, not sure he'll make it out alive. Consolation is the sequel to Bitter Wash Road and Peace , and unveils an entirely new kind of rural noir.