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She breathes deeply, trying to quell the rising sense of panic. A detective came to her home, drugged her and kidnapped her. She tries to make sense of it, to imagine alternatives, but only one conclusion is possible: it's the past, come to claim her.

Martin Scarsden's new life seems perfect, right up until the moment it's shattered by a voicemail: a single scream, abruptly cut off, from his partner Mandalay Blonde.

Racing home, he finds an unconscious man sprawled on the floor and Mandy gone. Someone has abducted her. But who, and why?

So starts a twisting tale of intrigue and danger, as Martin probes the past of the woman he loves, a woman who has buried her former life so deep she has never mentioned it.

And for the first time, Mandy finds denial impossible, now the body of a mystery man has been discovered, a man whose name she doesn't know, a man she was engaged to marry when he died. It's time to face her demons once and for all; it's time she learned how to trust.

Set in a Sydney riven with corruption and nepotism, privilege and power, Trust is the third riveting novel from award-winning and internationally acclaimed writer Chris Hammer.

'The best Australian crime novel since Peter Temple's The Broken Shore.' - The Times on Silver

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13 October 2020
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A heatwave of a novel, scorching and powerful... Extraordinary * AJ Finn * Set in the parched Australian landscape, Scrublands is a brilliantly plotted thriller which reveals a town full of brooding secrets. I couldn't put this compelling debut down -- Sarah Ward * author of The Shrouded Path * It's hard not to compare Chris Hammer's Scrublands to Jane Harper's acclaimed The Dry ... [It will]capture your imagination from the first page -- Karen Hardy * The Age * Scrublands is the epic novel about rural life in Australia that we need right now ... It sits right up there with the late Peter Temple's Broken Shore, Garry Disher's Bitterwash Road and Jane Harper's The Dry, even as it extends their focus and reach ... Remarkable * Sidney Morning Herald * --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Chris Hammer was a journalist for more than thirty years, dividing his career between covering Australian federal politics and international affairs. For many years he was a roving foreign correspondent for SBS TV's flagship current affairs program Dateline. He has reported from more than thirty countries on six continents. Chris's non-fiction book, The River, published in 2010 to critical acclaim, was the recipient of the ACT Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Walkley Book Award. Scrublands, his first novel, was published in 2018 and won the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award, as well as being shortlisted for Best Debut Fiction at the Indie Book Awards, and Best General Fiction at the ABIA Awards. It has also been longlisted for the Ned Kelly Best Crime Novel of the Year. Scrublands was optioned for television by Easy Tiger (a FremantleMedia company). Chris has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Charles Sturt University and a master's degree in international relations from the Australian National University. He lives in Canberra with his wife, Dr Tomoko Akami. The couple have two children. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08BZDD3MS
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Allen & Unwin (13 October 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Chris Hammer was a journalist for more than thirty years, dividing his career between covering Australian federal politics and international affairs. For many years he was a roving foreign correspondent for SBS TV's flagship current affairs program Dateline. He has reported from more than thirty countries on six continents. Chris's non-fiction book, The River, published in 2010 to critical acclaim, was the recipient of the ACT Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Walkley Book Award. Scrublands, his first novel, was published in 2018 and was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Debut Dagger Award, Best Debut Fiction at the Indie Book Awards, and Best General Fiction at the ABIA Awards. It has also been longlisted for the Ned Kelly Best Crime Novel of the Year. Scrublands was optioned for television by Easy Tiger (a FremantleMedia company). Chris has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Charles Sturt University and a master's degree in international relations from the Australian National University. He lives in Canberra with his wife, Dr Tomoko Akami. The couple have two children.

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Action and corruption aplenty

Reviewed in Australia on 25 October 2020

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In this one Mandy and Martin park Liam with Uncle Vern while they go to Sydney to work on a case involving the disappearance 5 years earlier of a man Mandy was engaged to - Tarquin Molloy. Ostensibly a lawyer helping out at a merchant bank, he was in fact, an undercover cop looking for dirt on the bank. Everyone, including Mandy, believed he was simply a thief who’d stolen $10 million and skipped the country. When his body is discovered by engineers cemented into a cracking, sub-standard apartment block, opinions are revised. What follows is a wild ride involving a secret group of influential people, a Chicago mobster, a couple of psychopathic crims, various police (possibly trustworthy, possibly not), journalists looking for scoops, a young computer geek and Martin’s old ASIO contact, among others.

As the death count rises and malware proliferates, Mandy and Martin are reviewing who they are as individuals and as a couple. Issues of trust are big. When the inevitable finally hits the fan, Martin’s new publisher throws everything online as the writs start flying and many well known people go ducking for cover. The idea is to get the genie right out of the bottle so it can’t be stuffed back in. Even the FBI comes running as the story goes viral in the US. This is the first novel I’ve read that mentions COVID, which for the purposes of the novel is having only a lingering economic effect. While the bigness of the plot may strain credulity somewhat, stranger things have happened (as evidenced by the Royal Commission into Banking), it’s certainly action-packed: psychologically as well as physically. Note to publishers: a character is misnamed at one point.

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AnneP

Best book I've read in 2020 & I've read a few!

Reviewed in Australia on 20 October 2020

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I often buy the Kindle version of a book with the Audible upgrade. Nearly always I'm happy to listen to the book at the normal pace but every now and then I come across a book like this one and I'm drawn so far in that I have to revert back to reading the words. I was enjoying the book until I reached chapter 39. Then thankfully with my working part of the day out of the way, I could put her world aside as concentrate on the story until the end. Nothing was getting done until I reached the end of the book. I was not disappointed. I only hope there is another (at least) Martin & Mandy story to tell. I hope you win loads of awards with this one Chris Hammer. I've loved the previous two and this one is ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ as well.

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Brad

Feels rushed and not vintage - skip this one.

Reviewed in Australia on 22 January 2021

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Three stars is generous. His first book was great, and I deliberately skipped the second as I saw it has the same characters again (just how unlucky can a couple get?). Well, should have checked more closely as it’s the same characters- again. Whereas the first book painted a vivid picture of a country town in drought, and had some semi credible characters and events, this book doesn’t capture Sydney at all and the story is completely non credible and many loose ends are hastily wrapped up at the end. Chris needs to wipe the slate with some new characters and a more cohesive story line.

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alan riles

A 'Rake'-like page-turner

Reviewed in Australia on 26 March 2021

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Compared to the laconic Peter Temple style of Scrubland and the semi-exotic setting of Silver, the opening of Trust, a racy account of yet another deep dive into Mandy's colourful past, did not appeal initially.
But it did grow on me as an expose of a corrupt Sydney high society and in the end it was hard to put down.
What will be next?

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Lisa Bacon-Hall

Corruption and crime.

Reviewed in Australia on 27 October 2020

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The third story of Martin and Mandalay. Lots of twists and turns and a very engaging read. Corruption and crime brought to life in Sydney. I still find Scrublands to be the best in the series.
It did maintain my interest in the two protagonists.

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narelle bennett

Trust

Reviewed in Australia on 9 November 2020

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Another good story from Chris Hammer. He now needs to move on from the same characters.

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Good

Reviewed in Australia on 15 December 2020

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Cohesive and enjoyable crime thriller. I wouldn't rave about it but it was entertaining. Characters felt a bit light but still believable.

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Maureen Miller

Trust

Reviewed in Australia on 17 February 2021

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The story became very complicated the further it went. It was an interesting read. His use of 'intellectual' words was annoying. Simpler ones would have been just as good. i enjoyed Scrublands better.

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Third Time Unlucky

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 January 2021

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I thought “Scrublands” and “Silver” were great reads, the praise for them well-deserved. Sadly, “Trust” is not in the same category. The characters - several of whom feature in the first two books - are, curiously, less convincing third time round. The plot is over-complex and, frankly, not very interesting. (When the name of an ASIO officer suddenly crops up instead of a policeman in one scene, I wondered whether the author was not losing interest.) And I’m always suspicious of books which devote many pages at the end to explaining what is supposed to have happened. The author intended to write a trilogy; that is clear. A pity; he should have left readers with the great memories of only the first two volumes. The third volume is a plodding piece of work, not really worth reading - and secondly not worth remembering other than as an example of how not to write a thriller.

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Diane

Trust Chris Hammer to write a good book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 November 2020

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I chose this book, as I wanted to read a story from Australia. We can't get there atm to see our daughter and our grandchild. I felt this gave me a link. I have read Scrublands and Silver and felt as though I knew the places, Trust was the same.
I like the characters ,who,, while they have lived full lives and have things happen to them , they remain decent and have integrity. They learn things about themselves and change and grow. They have developed so much over the three books and I can't wait to read about them again. The book was finished too quickly.

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Paris

Great page turner.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 January 2021

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The third outing for the two main characters and, while the plot was convoluted to put it mildly, it was certainly gripping. As others have outlined it, I will not revisit the story; suffice it to say that it kept me hooked and I finished the last quarter in one sitting. Yes, it involved corruption at a high level and that is always tricky in crime fiction, but reality has shown us that such things are not unknown. I note several reviewers have suggested the author moves on to new characters; I feel mixed about that as lengthy series can become stale but equally there is the opportunity for characters to develop. If CH does return to Mandy and Martin, it might need to be about a crime/ situation more external than simply mining their personal histories, particularly as both seem to consider their pasts in this book. Give them a chance to go forward with their new insights.
Perhaps, somewhat unrealistically, I was glad that the Covid pandemic was tangential to the plot. I know that nobody is going to be able to write in future without taking this into account, but stuck in the middle of it, I want my crime fiction to be free of it and part of my daily escape, so thank goodness this is from Australia, which, as a country, has spared its citizens the appalling outrages that the British government has not been competent enough to do.
Overall, I enjoyed this considerably and I will be keeping my eyes open for his next work.

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Derick Parsons

Tripe

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 November 2020

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Unbelievably, almost comically bad. One of the silliest books I’ve ever come across: witless, tedious and meaningless. So stupid I can’t be bothered listing off all the inane stupidities in what I suppose I have to call the plot, for want of a more apt word. Appalling drivel.

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Donny Rock

Major disappointment.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 February 2021

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Third book in the Scarsden series. This is an over-convoluted novel which, I get the impression, may have been rushed into publication. I feel the book needs a more cohesive editing. the plot is quite a good one, but, to find it, I needed to ignore and dodge a lot of irrelevancies, inconsequences and inexplicables.

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