Curlew Enigma by Don Douglas
From harsh beginnings in the mid-19th century, the enigmatic Elijah Henry evolves to lead a band of bushrangers who become the focus of law enforcement in the fledgling State of Queensland.
When the doggedly determined Detective O'Reilly becomes their nemesis, Elijah defiantly responds by staging the gang's most brazen coup, risking all in the process.

Don Douglas comes from a family of storytellers and yarners with pastoral experience going back five generations, to the days when Queensland was the colony of Moreton Bay.
His aim is to tell an entertaining story that fits the historic period of the story, without pretending to be history.
Curlew Enigma is the first novel of the crrlew series which traces Eliza McDonald's family into the 21st Century from this beginning.