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Australian Crime Fiction
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Author : Stephen Knight
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2018-06-14
Australian Crime Fiction written by Stephen Knight and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Australian crime fiction has grown from the country's origins as an 18th-century English prison colony. Early stories focused on escaped convicts becoming heroic bush rangers, or how the system mistreated those who were wrongfully convicted. Later came thrillers about wealthy free settlers and lawless gold-seekers, and urban crime fiction, including Fergus Hume's 1887 international best-seller The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, set in Melbourne. The 1980s saw a surge of private-eye thrillers, popular in a society skeptical of police. Twenty-first century authors have focused on policemen--and increasingly policewomen--and finally indigenous crime narratives. The author explores in detail this rich but little known national subgenre.
White Ash Ridge
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Author : S. R. White
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2024-03-14
White Ash Ridge written by S. R. White and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-14 with Fiction categories.
A REMOTE HOTEL. FIVE GUESTS. ONE MURDER. A rising star of Australian crime fiction ' SUNDAY TIMES 'S. R. White is the real deal.' CHRIS HAMMER, author of SCRUBLANDS During a broiling heatwave, the inner circle of a high-profile charity attend a critical meeting at White Ash Ridge, a small hotel nestled in the Australian wilderness. As the temperature rises, a body is found lying in the thick bush, bludgeoned to death. One of the four remaining guests is a murderer - but who, and why, is a mystery. Detective Dana Russo knows the national spotlight will be sharply focused on the case. The charity was formed when the founders' teenage son was killed after intervening in a vicious assault - sparking public outrage and a damning verdict on the police investigation. But under huge pressure and with few clues - plus suspects who instinctively distrust the police - how can Dana unravel the truth? Praise for S. R. White: 'A taut, beautifully observed slow-burner with an explosive finish' Peter May 'Original, compelling and highly recommended' Chris Hammer 'Gripping' THE GUARDIAN 'A fascinating case' SUNDAY TIMES 'It draws you in - and rewards with a truly powerful ending' HEAT 'This slow-burn novel catches light' THE SUN 'The story takes place over less than 48 hours but the pace is slow-burn, relying on considerable psychological depth...the denouement hits like a knockout punch WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN 'A dark and compulsive read' WOMAN & HOME
Sand On The Gumshoe
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Author : David Latta
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Sand On The Gumshoe written by David Latta and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Fiction categories.
10 stories representing the various types and styles of crime fiction that Australians wrote and read in the century from 1850.
Continent Of Mystery
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Author : Stephen Knight
language : en
Publisher: Melbourne University
Release Date : 1997
Continent Of Mystery written by Stephen Knight and has been published by Melbourne University this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Fiction categories.
The Broken Shore
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Author : Peter Temple
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2008-05-27
The Broken Shore written by Peter Temple and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-27 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the Colin Roderick Award for Australian writing, the Ned Kelly Award for Australian crime fiction, and the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award. Peter Temple's The Broken Shore is a transfixing and moving novel about a place, a family, politics and power, and the need to live decently in a world where so much is rotten. The Broken Shore, his eighth novel, revolves around big-city detective Joe Cashin. Shaken by a scrape with death, he's posted away from the Homicide Squad to the quiet town on the South Australian coast where he grew up. Carrying physical scars and more than a little guilt, he spends his time playing the country cop, walking his dogs, and thinking about how it all was before. But when a prominent local is attacked in his own home and left for dead, Cashin is thrust into what becomes a murder investigation. The evidence points to three boys from the nearby aboriginal community—everyone seems to want to blame them. Cashin is unconvinced, and soon begins to see the outlines of something far more terrible than a burglary gone wrong. Peter Temple is currently being hailed as the finest crime writer in Australia, but it won't be long before he is recognized as what he really is—one of the nation's finest writers, period. Born in South Africa, Temple is writing a dynamic kind of literary thriller that ultimately defies classification.
A Whisper In The Grass
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Author : Warren Hately
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2018-06-08
A Whisper In The Grass written by Warren Hately and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-08 with categories.
Who murdered Rebecca Brunella? And why did they decapitate the young woman's body and drain her blood after death? The murder is the brutal first assignment for damaged police detective Jan de Vlamingh after getting dumped in the remote coastal town of Anglesey following a shooting in the city. Did the dead woman have links to the occult? The sex trade? Drug syndicates? What about the ongoing investigation into coastal serial murders police are dubbing Operation Highwayman? And did de Vlamingh's flirtatious encounter with the murdered woman just days before her death play any part? Fans of Peter Temple, Peter Corris and Anna Snoekstra will love A Whisper In The Grass because of its grimy foray into the dark underbelly of a remote West Australian town and an ending that will leave you breathless. Click to buy.
Red Dirt Road
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Author : S. R. White
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2023-01-05
Red Dirt Road written by S. R. White and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-05 with Fiction categories.
'A rising star of Australian crime fiction ' SUNDAY TIMES 'Gripping' GUARDIAN S. R. White is the real deal.' CHRIS HAMMER, author of SCRUBLANDS One outback town. Two puzzling murders. Fifty suspects. In Unamurra, a drought-scarred, one-pub town deep in the outback, two men are savagely murdered a month apart - their bodies elaborately arranged like angels. With no witnesses, no obvious motives and no apparent connections between the killings, how can lone police officer Detective Dana Russo - flown in from hundreds of kilometres away - possibly solve such a baffling, brutal case? Met with silence and suspicion from locals who live by their own set of rules, Dana must take over a stalled investigation with only a week to make progress. But with a murderer hiding in plain sight, and the parched days rapidly passing, Dana is determined to uncover the shocking secrets of this forgotten town - a place where anyone could be a killer. A gripping and vividly atmospheric story from the international bestseller, this is a searing story perfect for fans of Jane Harper, Chris Hammer and Garry Disher. Praise for S. R. White: 'A taut, beautifully observed slow-burner with an explosive finish' Peter May 'Original, compelling and highly recommended' Chris Hammer 'A fascinating case' SUNDAY TIMES 'It draws you in - and rewards with a truly powerful ending' HEAT 'This slow-burn novel catches light' THE SUN
The Way It Is Now
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Author : Garry Disher
language : en
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Release Date : 2022-08-04
The Way It Is Now written by Garry Disher and has been published by Serpent's Tail this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-04 with Fiction categories.
'A superb chronicler of cop culture' - SUNDAY TIMES 'Disher is the equal of Joseph Wambaugh and James Lee Burke' - THE TIMES 'Doesn't get better than this' - DOMINIC NOLAN NOTHING STAYS BURIED FOREVER... Twenty years ago, Charlie Deravin's mother went missing, believed murdered. Her body has never been found, and his father has lived under a cloud of suspicion ever since. Now Charlie has returned to the coastal town where his mother vanished, on disciplinary leave from his job with the police, and permanent leave from his marriage. After two decades worrying away at the mystery of his mother's disappearance, he's run out of leads. Then the skeletal remains of two people are found in the excavation of a new building site... and the past comes crashing in on Charlie. But as one mystery is solved another is posed, and as his hometown is shaken to the core by the discovery of a brutal crime hidden for years beneath its feet, Charlie must decide what matters more: peace for the living, or justice for the dead. From the multiple Ned Kelly Award-winning author of Consolation comes a stunning new standalone thriller, for readers of Jane Harper, Ian Rankin and Chris Hammer. 'Lyrically captures a moment in time' - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD 'A deft and compelling crime novelist' - GUARDIAN AUSTRALIA
Australian Crime Fiction
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Author : John Loder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Australian Crime Fiction written by John Loder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This bibliography lists more than 2000 titles by some 500 Australian authors during the period 1857-1993. Covers detective fiction, mystery stories, works on gangs and pushes, spies, enemy agents, bushrangers and convicts. Also contains the first detailed listing of Australian pulps and ephemerals. Includes title index, illustrators index, and investigators and criminals index.
The Anthology Of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction
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Author : Ken Gelder
language : en
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Release Date : 2008-07-01
The Anthology Of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction written by Ken Gelder and has been published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-01 with Literary Collections categories.
From the editors of The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction comes this fascinating collection of disturbing mysteries and gruesome tales by authors such as Mary Fortune, James Skipp Borlase, Guy Boothby, Francis Adams, Ernest Favenc, 'Rolf Boldrewood' and Norman Lindsay, among many others. In the bush and the tropics, the goldfields and the city streets, colonial Australia is a troubling, bewildering place and almost impossible to regulate—even for the most vigilant detective. Ex-convicts, bushrangers, ruthless gold prospectors, impostors, thieves and murderers flow through the stories that make up this collection, challenging the nascent forces of colonial law and order. The landscape itself seems to stimulate criminal activity, where identities change at will and people suddenly disappear without a trace. The Anthology of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction is a remarkable anthology that taps into the fears and anxieties of colonial Australian life.