Getting used to living in a new city can be difficult for anyone.
When you're a giant bird, it's a little bit more than just difficult. For Niko, adjusting to city life is only just the beginnings of his troubles in Greenleaf. Deciding whether he can truly trust the people around him is only the beginning. With Niko becoming an adventurer and embarking on The Pilgrimage in order to gain power faster, he's going to need to keep his wits about him if he wants to keep his feathers attached. Though, that's easier said than done with conspiring nobility and secrecy abound.
Worse still is the threat looming on the horizon, something that all of Greenleaf must band together and fight off or vanish into hungering maws.
'Well, that's just clucking great.'
How the New South Wales Police Force's finest solved murders in one of the most tumultuous periods in Australian history.
As Australia sank into the darkest days of the Great Depression, a succession of bloody mysteries grabbed headlines and gripped the country. The Hammer Horror, The Bungendore Bones, The Park Demon, The Human Glove and The Pyjama Girl – these were just some of the grisly cases that had to be solved by the Sydney detectives of The Murder Squad.
With the people, press and politicians screaming for justice and vengeance, homicide chief Tom McRae and his colleagues used bold new investigative tools in the massive manhunts for these maniacal killers. Working under intense pressure, hard-nosed and hard-charging cops solved some cases brilliantly – yet others were 'closed' with dodgy convictions while several shadowy figures were to get away with murder.
Set against the backdrop of our greatest economic crisis, as the federal and state governments headed for a showdown and fascist and communist thugs threatened civil war, The Murder Squad reopens the files on Australia's most chilling forgotten crimes to ask who was guilty, who was innocent, and whether some cops were as dangerous as the monsters they were hunting.
Charles Monroe survived the disappearance of his parents, did his best to hold things together for himself and his sister. He survived when she, too, vanished, leaving behind nothing but a cryptic note.
After suffering through several rounds of chemotherapy, Charles Monroe thought that things might finally be looking up. That is, until a virulent strain of ebola swept through the city. With his immune system strained as it is, the odds don't look good for Charles.
Now, on the bridge between life and death, he hears a voice claiming to know where his family went. It claims that it needs his help and that it can give him a second life, one far away from all the pain he's ever known. So, Charles answers as any reasonable person would.
He says no. Charles isn't ready or willing to die yet.
With no other option, Charles chooses to make a deal with the spirit of a distant world that's seeking a wild card in its battle against the gods, monsters, and mortals that threaten its existence.
Someday, he'll find where his family went. Someday, he'll uphold his end of the bargain and hunt beings powerful beyond anything he's ever known. Someday, he might even-hatch?
'CHEEP!?'
