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1 y separately published work icon The Carnival is Over Greg Woodland , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2022 24430522 2022 single work novel crime thriller

'1971—Hal is seventeen, with dreams of escaping from Moorabool to a life in the city. But right now he’s on a good behaviour bond and stuck in a job he hates, paying off the car he ‘borrowed’ and crashed. Hal’s packing-room job makes him a target for workplace bullies and the friendship of the older, more worldly Christine is all that makes each day bearable. So when she doesn’t turn up for work, he’s on the alert.
So is Sergeant Mick Goodenough. But he already knows what’s happened to Christine: the same thing that happened to the newly elected deputy mayor. When another gruesome ‘accident’ occurs in Moorabool, Goodenough suspects there’s something sinister going on behind the scenes at the abattoir.
Mick and Hal are both determined to dig up the truth. Before long each of them is going to find himself in mortal danger and running for his life.

'Greg Woodland, author of the acclaimed The Night Whistler, returns with another nailbiting rural thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat.' (Publication summary)
2 y separately published work icon The Night Whistler Greg Woodland , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2020 19599487 2020 single work novel thriller

'The summer of 1966–7. Hal and his little brother have just come to live in Moorabool. They’re exploring the creek near their new home when they find the body of a dog.

'Not just dead, but killed.

'Not just killed, but horribly maimed.

'Constable Mick Goodenough, recently demoted from his big-city job as a detective, is also new in town—and one of his dogs has gone missing. Like other pets around the town.

'He knows what it means when someone tortures animals to death. They’re practising. So when Hal’s mother starts getting late-night phone calls—a man whistling, then hanging up—Goodenough, alone among the Moorabool cops, takes her seriously. But will that be enough to keep her and her young sons safe?

'Nostalgic yet clear-eyed, simmering with small-town menace, Greg Woodland’s wildly impressive debut populates the rural Australia of the 1960s with memorable characters and almost unbearable tension.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 form The Visitor Greg Woodland , 2007 single work film/TV
1 The Script Editor : Adventures in Sculpture Greg Woodland , 2007 single work column
— Appears in: Newswrite : The NSW Writers' Centre Magazine , July no. 171 2007; (p. 15)
1 The First Time's the Worst Greg Woodland , 1982 single work short story
— Appears in: Brave New Word , no. 4 1982; (p. 68-71)
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