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y separately published work icon Shadows Down Under single work   novel   science fiction   fantasy  
Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Shadows Down Under
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'Someone – or something – is killing nightclub entertainers in Kings Cross, Australia. Striking from the shadows, methodical and heinous, the murderer has wrapped the bawdy, colorful neighborhood in a suffocating blanket of terror.

'Ninniniru “Ninn” Tossinn, a troubled private investigator on the run from her past, joins forces with Barega, an elderly Aborigine shaman [sic], to uncover the truth behind the malevolent force – and put themselves on the Cross Slayer’s list. But can they defeat the darkness, survive Sydney’s powerful mana storm, and reach the true heart of the evil threatening the city? Their search takes them from gritty alleys filled with gang symbols and worse to beneath the squatter-filled harbor bridge over shark-infested waters.

'As their investigation deepens, soon the Cross Slayer isn’t the only foe stalking them. Ninn and Barega have to put all their trust in each other if they’re going to bring the slayer to justice, uncover the conspiracy behind the murders, and stay alive long enough to do both.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Catalyst Game Labs ,       2016 .
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      Extent: 242p.p.
      Note/s:

      • Published 20 July 2016.

      ISBN: 9781942487289, 1942487282
      Series: y separately published work icon Shadowrun Roc Books (publisher), New York (City) : Roc Books , 1991-2005 Z1797989 1991 series - publisher novel science fiction

      Shadowrun was conceived and developed by the FASA Corporation (USA) as a role-playing game set in a near-future fictional universe in which cybernetics, magic, and fantasy creatures co-exist. It combines genres of cyberpunk, urban fantasy, and crime, with occasional elements of conspiracy fiction, horror, and detective fiction. Among the merchandise spawned by the game have been a card game, two miniature-based wargames, multiple video games, music, and a series of novels.

      FASA released forty Shadowrun novels in collaboration with Roc Publishing between 1991 and its corporate demise in 2001. In 2005, WizKids began publishing new Shadowrun novels, again through the Roc imprint of the New American Library. Six novels were released in the new series, including one by Australian author Stephen Dedman.

      In 2010, a book of short stories set in the Shadowrun universe was published, called Spells and Chrome. A new novel, Dark Resonance, was announced at the end of the book. Its release date is expected to be in 2011.

      Several additional novels were published in foreign languages only. More than thirty novels have been written in German, by German and Austrian authors published by Heyne (since 1991) and FanPro (since 1997).
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  • Kings Cross, Kings Cross area, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
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