The diggers rest hotel / Geoffrey McGeachin
- Bib ID:
- 7286886
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- McGeachin, Geoffrey, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Camberwell, Victoria : Penguin Group (Australia), 2010
- ©2010
- 1 online resource (336 pages).
- ISBN:
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- 1742530680 (EPUB : :)
- 9781742530680 (EPUB : :)
- Summary:
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Winner of the 2011 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel Two years after witnessing the murder of a young Jewish woman in Poland, Charlie Berlin, ex-bomber pilot and former POW, has rejoined the police force a different man. While he is investigating a spate of robberies in rural victoria the body of a young girl is discovered and Berlin's pursuit of her killer reveals that the war has changed even the most ordinary of people and places. 'A feisty, beautifully researched thriller . . . shot through with brilliant insights and great dialogue. The best new Aussie entrant in the crime stakes since Peter Temple.' The Mercury 'A bottler of a book . . . superbly crafted. A terrific book in all respects.' Weekly Times 'Charlie Berlin [is] a wonderfully flawed human being doing his duty, falling apart and picking himself back up again.' Austcrimefiction.org 'McGeachin's reconstruction of post-war Australia has an air of authenticity . . . there is a depth to the characters that is characteristic of the better modern detective fiction.' Daily Telegraph.
- Notes:
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- Imprint: e-penguin.
- Print version record
- Subject:
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- Australian fiction
- Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Australia -- Fiction
- Berlin, Charlie (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Hotels -- Australia -- Fiction
- Journalists -- Australia -- Fiction
- Police -- Australia -- Albury-Wodonga district (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
- Police -- New South Wales -- Albury-Wodonga district -- Fiction
- Robbers and outlaws -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Australia -- Fiction
- Armed Forces
- Bars (Drinking establishments)
- Hotels
- Journalists
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- Police
- Veterans
- Australia -- Armed Forces -- Fiction
- Australia
- Australian
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2010
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