People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks

“Hanna Heath, the star of Geraldine Brooks’s “People of the Book,” is a hardboiled Aussie. She drinks beer “straight from the tinnie,” calls her colleagues “matey,” and views children as “a midlife luxury.” The daughter of a father she’s never known and an absentee mother who’s a neurosurgeon, Hanna is the kind of woman commonly cast as a private investigator or forensic pathologist.’ Read the review at Bloomberg News.