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Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 Something Wicked
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'When burnt-out pop star Adam Quinn is found grotesquely dead on a secluded mountain property called Haven, it looks like a case of suicide. But is it? Bliss, Skye and Astral Brydie, the three sisters found at Haven with Quinn's body, are vague about what happened the night he died. And their mother is nowhere to be found. The girls seem terrified, as if they're holding something back...Senior Detective Tessa Vance and her partner Steve Hayden work to penetrate the web of fear, suspicion and deceit that shrouds Haven', as slowly, 'the dark secrets of the place' are exposed. (Source: back cover, 1998 edition)

Notes

  • Epigraph: By the pricking of my thumbs / Something wicked this way comes / Macbeth, William Shakespeare

  • The second of Jennifer Rowe's novels to feature Tessa Vance, the brilliant, intuitive detective from the Australian television series, Murder Call.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • St Leonards, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 1998 .
      Extent: 338p.
      Note/s:
      • 'With Murder Call's Senior Detective Tessa Vance' (appears on cover).
      ISBN: 1864485299, 9781864485295
    • St Leonards, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 1999 .
      Extent: 359p.
      ISBN: 1865081612
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Ballantine Books ,
      1999 .
      Extent: 295p.
      Edition info: 1st American ed.
      ISBN: 9780345427953 (pbk), 0345427955 (pbk)
Alternative title: Soumissions : roman
Language: French
    • Paris,
      c
      France,
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Fayard ,
      2002 .
      Extent: 393p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 2213612161

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording, large print.

Works about this Work

Review : Various Carol Harper , 2004-2005 single work review
— Appears in: Mystery Readers Journal , Winter vol. 20 no. 4 2004-2005; (p. 42-43)

— Review of Finders Keepers Emily Rodda , 1990 single work children's fiction ; Rowan of Rin : The Journey Emily Rodda , 2004 selected work children's fiction ; Love Lies Bleeding : A Crimes For a Summer Christmas Anthology 1994 anthology short story ; The Makeover Murders Jennifer Rowe , 1992 single work novel ; Death in Store Jennifer Rowe , 1991 selected work short story ; Something Wicked Jennifer Rowe , 1998 single work novel ; Deadline Jennifer Rowe , 1997 single work novel
Modern Gothic Michael J. Tolley , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 209 1999; (p. 43-44)

— Review of Something Wicked Jennifer Rowe , 1998 single work novel ; Past Due Claire McNab , 1998 single work novel
Getting a Way with Murder Stuart Coupe , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17 April 1999; (p. 8)

— Review of The Blessing File Carolyn Morwood , 1998 single work novel ; Past Due Claire McNab , 1998 single work novel ; Something Wicked Jennifer Rowe , 1998 single work novel
Women with a Talent for Finding the Truth Katharine England , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 28 November 1998; (p. 23)

— Review of Something Wicked Jennifer Rowe , 1998 single work novel ; Past Due Claire McNab , 1998 single work novel
Crime File Susan Geason , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 21 November 1998; (p. 9)

— Review of Something Wicked Jennifer Rowe , 1998 single work novel
Review : Various Carol Harper , 2004-2005 single work review
— Appears in: Mystery Readers Journal , Winter vol. 20 no. 4 2004-2005; (p. 42-43)

— Review of Finders Keepers Emily Rodda , 1990 single work children's fiction ; Rowan of Rin : The Journey Emily Rodda , 2004 selected work children's fiction ; Love Lies Bleeding : A Crimes For a Summer Christmas Anthology 1994 anthology short story ; The Makeover Murders Jennifer Rowe , 1992 single work novel ; Death in Store Jennifer Rowe , 1991 selected work short story ; Something Wicked Jennifer Rowe , 1998 single work novel ; Deadline Jennifer Rowe , 1997 single work novel
The Best of a Very Good Year Would Make Ideal Holiday Reading Jeff Popple , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times Sunday Times , 27 December 1998; (p. 20)

— Review of The Black Prince : A Cliff Hardy Novel Peter Corris , 1998 single work novel ; Past Due Claire McNab , 1998 single work novel ; Something Wicked Jennifer Rowe , 1998 single work novel ; The Blessing File Carolyn Morwood , 1998 single work novel
Getting a Way with Murder Stuart Coupe , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17 April 1999; (p. 8)

— Review of The Blessing File Carolyn Morwood , 1998 single work novel ; Past Due Claire McNab , 1998 single work novel ; Something Wicked Jennifer Rowe , 1998 single work novel
C is for Christmas Patricia Rolfe , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 29 December-5 January (1998-1999) vol. 117 no. 6155 1998; (p. 146-149)

— Review of Five Ring Circus Jon Cleary , 1998 single work novel ; Something Wicked Jennifer Rowe , 1998 single work novel
Crime File Susan Geason , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 21 November 1998; (p. 9)

— Review of Something Wicked Jennifer Rowe , 1998 single work novel
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