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| Author | Geoffrey McGeachin |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Charlie Berlin |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | Viking Books, Australia |
Publication date | 2012 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 281 |
| ISBN | 9780670075881 |
| Preceded by | The Diggers Rest Hotel |
| Followed by | St Kilda Blues |
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Ten years after the events of the first book in the series, The Diggers Rest Hotel , Charlie Berlin is now married and living in Melbourne. His innocent investigations to strange goings-on at a funeral parlour for a friend, leads him to Blackwattle Creek, a former asylum for the criminally insane, to Cold War paranoia and corrupt policemen.
Fair Dinkum Crime thought the novel to be a "ripper of a yarn" and that the author "has excelled at drawing out the small details of life that depict a time and place to perfection". [2] In The Guardian, Andrew Nette found a dark, "unsettling yarn" and was "genuinely interested to know where McGeachin is going to take Berlin next". [3]
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