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Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 Big Bad Blood
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Sydney 1965. The Beatles are on every radio, and Detective Ray Shearer’s on the take. Shearer acts as muscle for Kings Cross businessman George Shaloub. George has problems. He wants to knock down some terraces in the Cross to build a business centre, but heiress and local newspaper publisher Jenny Wilson is running a high-profile campaign against him. Then one of his prostitutes is found murdered – a copycat killing of an horrific rape and murder six years earlier. This is just the beginning of the nightmare: the underworld of cops and crims, arson, drugs and a maelstrom of violence and deceit; of long-hidden secrets that will drive Shearer into a labyrinth of shame, guilt and hate. Only by confronting his own dark secrets can he succeed.

Source: Author's website [https://davewarner.com.au/products/big-bad-blood].

Notes

  • Dedication: This book is dedicated to my wife, Nicole.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Milsons Point, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Vintage Australia , 1996 .
      Extent: 537p.
      ISBN: 0091834481

Works about this Work

A Cut Above the Burbs David Dale , 2000 single work biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25 March 2000; (p. 5)
Big Bad Blood Steve Proposch , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Big Issue , 27 January-23 February no. 14 1997; (p. 35)

— Review of Big Bad Blood Dave Warner , 1996 single work novel
Crooked Cops in Sleazy '60s Sydney Peter Pierce , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 8 April vol. 116 no. 6066 1997; (p. 75)

— Review of Big Bad Blood Dave Warner , 1996 single work novel
Novel Cops No Longer the Really Good Guys Jeff Popple , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 9 March 1997; (p. 20)

— Review of Big Bad Blood Dave Warner , 1996 single work novel
Prime Crime: A Message from the Suburbs Stuart Coupe , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 2 March 1997; (p. 7)

— Review of Big Bad Blood Dave Warner , 1996 single work novel ; Shoot the Messenger James Tatham , 1997 single work novel
Big Bad Blood Steve Proposch , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Big Issue , 27 January-23 February no. 14 1997; (p. 35)

— Review of Big Bad Blood Dave Warner , 1996 single work novel
Murder, They Said Terry O'Connor , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 1 February 1997; (p. wkd 10)

— Review of Bad Debts Peter Temple , 1996 single work novel ; Shoot the Messenger James Tatham , 1997 single work novel ; Big Bad Blood Dave Warner , 1996 single work novel
Young Gun Kicks On Stuart Coupe , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 July 1997; (p. 10s)

— Review of The Washington Club : A Cliff Hardy Novel Peter Corris , 1997 single work novel ; Shoot the Messenger James Tatham , 1997 single work novel ; Big Bad Blood Dave Warner , 1996 single work novel ; Fallout Garry Disher , 1997 single work novel
Not Your Average Crime Fiction J. R. Carroll , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 190 1997; (p. 64)

— Review of To A Wolf The Kill Jon Weaving , 1997 single work novel ; Big Bad Blood Dave Warner , 1996 single work novel
Smells Like a Big Bad Bestseller Ken Spillman , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 5 February 1997; (p. 7)

— Review of Big Bad Blood Dave Warner , 1996 single work novel
A Cut Above the Burbs David Dale , 2000 single work biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25 March 2000; (p. 5)
Boy from the 'Burbs Embraces Crime Patricia Rolfe , 1997 single work column biography
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 11 March vol. 116 no. 6062 1997; (p. 82)
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