Born: Established: 1957 Maryborough, Maryborough (Qld) area, Maryborough - Hervey Bay - Fraser Island area, Maryborough - Rockhampton area, Queensland, ;
Gender:
Male
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Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
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2019
recipient
Australia Council Literature Board Grants
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Grants for Developing Writers
Career development grant valued at $25,000
Awards for Works
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The Holiday Murders
Melbourne
London
:
Scribe
,
2013
Z1914558
2013
single work
novel
crime
'On Christmas Eve, 1943, the newly formed but undermanned Homicide division of the Melbourne police force is called to investigate the vicious double murder of a father and son. When Military Intelligence becomes involved, Homicide's Inspector Titus Lambert must unravel the personal from the political.
'If only the killings had stopped at two. The police are desperate to come to grips with an extraordinary and disquieting upsurge of violence. For Constable Helen Lord, it is an opportunity to make her mark in a male-dominated world where she is patronised as a novelty. For Detective Joe Sable, the investigation forces a reassessment of his indifference to his Jewish heritage. Racing against the clock, the police uncover simmering tensions among secretive local Nazi sympathisers as a psychopathic fascist usurper makes his move.
'The Holiday Murders explores a little-known and sometimes violent corner of Australian history, and finds oddly modern echoes in its paranoia, xenophobia, and ugly fervour.' (Publisher's blurb)
- 2013 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best Novel
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Amongst the Dead
Carlton North
:
Scribe
,
2007
Z1384689
2007
single work
novel
crime
Failed Shakepearean actor and would-be private investigator Will Power's unique detective skills are, once again, in demand. The Japanese army is rampaging through the islands of the South Pacific, where Australia's front line security is a top-secret, crack division of men embedded deep in the tropical wilderness of northern Australia. But something is threatening their vital, covert mission: one of this elite corps is a murderer, preying on his comrades one by one. With a case too sensitive to be trusted to the police, military intelligence turn to the one man whose singular combination of abilities make him capable of infiltrating the clandestine military operation and rooting out the killer. Power goes into deep cover, posing as a cheap, vaudeville entertainer on tour to relieve the troops. Enlisting the help of his brother, whose latent skills for female impersonation rise to the occasion, Power soon finds himself in the far-northern outback trying to raise the moral of a group of desperate young soldiers lying in wait for the arrival of Tojo's army - knowing all the while that one of them is the killer. - back cover
- 2008 nominated Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best Novel
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