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'In 1999, art dealer Alex Clayton stumbles across a lost portrait of Molly Dean, an artist’s muse brutally slain in Melbourne in 1930. Alex buys the painting and sets out to uncover more details, but finds there are strange inconsistencies: Molly’s mother seemed unconcerned by her daughter’s violent death, the main suspect was never brought to trial despite compelling evidence, and vital records are missing. Alex enlists the help of her close friend, art conservator John Porter, and together they sift through the clues and deceptions that swirl around the last days of Molly Dean.'
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Humanising a Cold Case Victim – Writing the Life and Brutal Death of Mollie Dean
2019
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 30 May 2019;'Two Australian books were published last year about a brutal murder that happened in Melbourne in 1930: the non-fiction A Scandal in Bohemia: The Life and Death of Mollie Dean by Gideon Haigh, and The Portrait of Molly Dean, Katherine Kovacic’s first novel.' (Introduction)
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Humanising a Cold Case Victim – Writing the Life and Brutal Death of Mollie Dean
2019
single work
column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 30 May 2019;'Two Australian books were published last year about a brutal murder that happened in Melbourne in 1930: the non-fiction A Scandal in Bohemia: The Life and Death of Mollie Dean by Gideon Haigh, and The Portrait of Molly Dean, Katherine Kovacic’s first novel.' (Introduction)
Awards
- 2019 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best First Novel
- 2019 longlisted Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel
- Melbourne, Victoria,
- 1930
