This audiobook is written by Tom and Meg Keneally and the story is set in Australia during the colonial times in the 1800’s and I found listening to it was quite interesting.

As the Major’s wife gets sick while her husband is away, and a clerk named Monsarrat who was sent to Australia as a convict has to write reports about her.

Monsarrat was an educated man, and so he became a clerk to the sick woman’s husband. Then as the Major’s wife was gravely ill she eventually died.

Then as her cause of death was due to being poisoned.

There were a few people that became suspects who Monsarrat had investigated. Then after her death. Monsarrat who was also called magpie, was still trying to work out who had done such a thing and why.