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Bianca Bernini did not foresee she would inspire her own murder when she boarded the legendary Ghan for the two day train trip from Sydney to Alice Springs. As the most read, most listened to gossip columnist in Australia, she was revelling in he power to ruin the lives of eight other passengers - eight highly placed, privileged people, who were determined on hiding their secrets at any cost. What would they pay to stop the public revelations she could and would make? For K.C. Gordon, successful romance novelist, travelling is a way of recharging her batteries - meeting new people, seeing new places, embracing new experiences. Wanting to set her next story in the Australian outback she starts off her trip on The Ghan hoping some of the passengers will provide inspiration for new characters. Within an hour of the train leaving platform one she is reluctantly drawn into the web Bianca is weaving around her victims. But the web is already spun. - back cover (Macmillan, 2002)
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Dedication: This book is dedicated to my mother, Doris Haggerty, who invariably brought murder mysteries home from the library. These i used to read secretly at night by the pilot light of a kerosene refrigerator. They were much more interesting than the children's books I was directed to read. May this murder mystery keep her guessing to the end. To a reader like my mother that would be truly bringing it off!
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Other Formats
- Also large print, sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Deadly Audiobooks Down Under
2004-2005
single work
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— Appears in: Mystery Readers Journal , Winter vol. 20 no. 4 2004-2005; (p. 49-50)
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Deadly Audiobooks Down Under
2004-2005
single work
column
— Appears in: Mystery Readers Journal , Winter vol. 20 no. 4 2004-2005; (p. 49-50)
Awards
- 2003 nominated Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel
- Australian Outback, Central Australia,
- South West Northern Territory, Southern Northern Territory, Northern Territory,