Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.

Today's episode features Sulari Gentill discussing her new novel A Testament of Character.

Rowland’s adventures have kept him away from Australia and before returning home he must divert his path again, this time to America. Rowland is summoned to take on the sad duty of executor of his old friend Daniel Cartwright’s estate.

Cartwright has been murdered and Rowland arrives in Boston to a family tempest as the Cartwright’s fight to see Daniel’s fortune settled on them. When the Will bequeaths the estate to a mysterious stranger named Otis Norcross it soon becomes clear that Rowland is going to have a job of keeping both himself and Daniel’s intentions in one piece.