Rubdown

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Rubdown
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Author Leigh Redhead
LanguageEnglish
SeriesSimone Kirsch
GenreCrime novel
Publisher Allen & Unwin
Publication date
2005
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages302
Awards2006 The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists; 2006 Davitt Award, Readers Choice, winner
ISBN 1741145538
Preceded by Peepshow  
Followed byCherry Pie 

Rubdown is a 2005 crime novel by Australian author Katherine Howell. [1]

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It is the second novel in the author's Simone Kirsch series of crime novels, following the author's 2004 novel Peepshow . [2]

It was the winner of the Readers Choice Davitt Award in 2006, [3] and the author was named as one of The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists in 2006. [4]

Synopsis

Simone Kirsch is engaged to check out Tamara Wade, the daughter of a prominent Melbourne family who has been involved with drugs and has worked in a massage parlor. Then Wade is found dead and Kirsch sets out to investigate.

Critical reception

Reviewing the novel in Australian Book Review Tony Smith noted: "Simone is a parody of male PIs and a metaphor for all women facing the 'have it all', post-feminist dilemma, and thus Rubdown is serious satire." [5]

In her report about her time as a judge of the Davitt Award for Sisters in Crime, Sue Turnbull cal this novel "a witty, raunchy and frequently violent read about a stripper turned private eye." [6]

Publication history

After the novel's initial publication in Australia by Allen & Unwin in 2005 [1] it was reprinted by the same publisher in 2007. [7]

It was also translated into German in 2007. [8]

Awards

Notes

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Rubdown by Leigh Redhead (A&U 2005)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 24 December 2025.
  2. ↑ "Simone Kirsch series by Leigh Redhead". Austlit. Retrieved 24 December 2025.
  3. 1 2 ""Davitt Award Winners 2001-2025"" (PDF). Sisters in Crime. Retrieved 24 December 2025.
  4. 1 2 Wyndham, Susan (9 May 2016). "The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists Award turns 20". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 24 December 2025.
  5. ↑ ""Disparate crimes by Tony Smith"". Australian Book Review, September 2005. Retrieved 24 December 2025.
  6. ↑ ""Turning Pages"". The Sunday Age, 29 October 2006. ProQuest   367315970 . Retrieved 24 December 2025.
  7. ↑ "Rubdown by Leigh Redhead (A&U 2007)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 24 December 2025.
  8. ↑ "Rubdown by Leigh Redhead (Wilhelm Heyne Verlag)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 24 December 2025.
  9. ↑ ""Ned Kelly Awards 2006"". Stop You're Killing Me. Retrieved 24 December 2025.
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