The Boundary

Name: The Boundary
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Nicole Watson

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Queensland Univ. Press
02 June 2026

Urban communities; First Nations; Criminal investigation & detection; Land rights; Australian Fiction

With an introduction from Torres Strait Islander author and editor Jasmin McGaughey, the Unaipon Award-winning The Boundary is a cracking, page-turning murder mystery.

Hours after rejecting the Corrowa People's native title claim on Brisbane's Meston Park, Justice Bruce Brosnan is brutally murdered in his home. Days later, lawyers against the claim are also found dead.

Aboriginal people were once prohibited from entering Brisbane's city limits at night, and Meston Park stood on the boundary. The Corrowa's matriarch, Ethel Cobb, is convinced the murders are the work of an ancient assassin who has returned to destroy the boundary, but Aboriginal lawyer Miranda Eversely isn't so sure. When the Premier is kidnapped, the pressure to find the killer intensifies ...

While the investigation forces Detective Sergeant Jason Matthews to confront his buried heritage, Miranda battles a sense of personal failure at the Corrowa's defeat. How far will it take her to the edge of self-destruction?

By: Nicole Watson
Imprint: Queensland Univ. Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 314g
ISBN: 9780702271236
ISBN 10: 0702271233
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 02 June 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Nicole Watson, a Mununjali and Birri Gubba woman from south-east Queensland, is Director of the Indigenous Law and Justice Hub at the University of Melbourne. A former Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney, she has made significant contributions to the legal field. She received the David Unaipon Award in 2009 for her crime novel The Boundary and is a former columnist for the National Indigenous Times.