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Wake in Fright

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Written by Kenneth Cook — Rural noir is big at the moment, if the interest in US writers like Donald Ray Pollock, Cormac McCarthy and Daniel Woodrell, is anything to go by. But while it is not be as well known, Kenneth Cook’s 1961 novel…
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Blackwattle Creek

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Written by Geoffrey McGeachin — Black Wattle Creek is the second book by Geoffrey McGeachin to feature Detective Sergeant Charlie Berlin, a cop on the beat in 1950s Melbourne. The first, The Diggers Rest Hotel, won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Fiction…
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The Obituarist

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Written by Patrick O’Duffy — There are all kinds of self-published crime books appearing. As we are frequently reminded, this means there’s a lot to sift through! However, written by an Australian editor of educational books, The Obituarist is a quirky-but-clever gem of a release….
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Ned Kelly Awards 2012 shortlist revealed

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The shortlist for Australia’s annual crime writing gongs, The Ned Kelly Awards, was released this week. While the big publishers usually dominate the Neddies, this year it’s a clean sweep – Allen and Unwin, Pan Macmillan, Harper Collins and Random House have carved up the…
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The Low Road

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Written by Chris Womersley — At what point did Australian crime fiction become dissatisfied with the confines of the genre and aspire to be something closer to literature? It probably started with Truth, the 2010 novel by Peter Temple, which won a heap of gongs,…
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