A Few Right Thinking Men
Rowland Sinclair #1
by Sulari Gentill
Rowland Sinclair is an artist and a gentleman. In Australia’s 1930s the Sinclair name is respectable and influential, yet Rowland has a talent for scandal.
Even with thousands of unemployed lining the streets, Rowland’s sheltered world is one of exorbitant wealth, culture and impeccable tailoring. He relies on the Sinclair fortune to indulge his artistic passions and friends … a poet, a painter and a brazen sculptress.
Mounting tensions fuelled by the Great Depression take Australia to the brink of revolution.
REVIEW
4 out of 5
This was quite the introduction to an interesting character – Rowland Sinclair. He’s about what you’d expect from a wealthy young man in the 1930s. I enjoyed the setting being in Australia, a time and place I’m not very familiar with. A lot of the political things went over my head – I don’t have the historical knowledge to completely frame it, but I wouldn’t say that really detracted much from my enjoyment (even though they’re a major part of the story). It was interesting to see the clashes between the political parties, and how Sinclair navigates it all. I thought Gentill did a great job of bringing the characters and setting to life. I’m looking forward to reading more books in this series.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Once upon a time, Sulari Gentill was a corporate lawyer serving as a director on public boards, with only a vague disquiet that there was something else she was meant to do. That feeling did not go away until she began to write. And so Sulari became the author of the Rowland Sinclair Mysteries: thus far, ten historical crime novels chronicling the life and adventures of her 1930s Australian gentleman artist, the Hero Trilogy, based on the myths and epics of the ancient world, and the Ned Kelly Award winning Crossing the Lines (published in the US as After She Wrote Hime). In 2014 she collaborated with National Gallery of Victoria to write a short story which was produced in audio to feature in the Fashion Detective Exhibition, and thereafter published by the NGV. IN 2019 Sulari was part of a 4-member delegation of Australian crime writers sponsored by the Australia Council to tour the US as ambassadors of Australian Crime Writing.
Sulari lives with her husband, Michael, and their boys, Edmund and Atticus, on a small farm in Batlow where she grows French Black Truffles and refers to her writing as “work” so that no one will suggest she get a real job.
