The January Zone

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The January Zone
Author Peter Corris
LanguageEnglish
Series Cliff Hardy
GenreCrime fiction
Publisher Allen and Unwin
Publication date
1987
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Preceded by Deal Me Out  
Followed by Man in the Shadows: A Short Novel and Six Stories  

The January Zone is 1987 Australian novel by Peter Corris featuring private detective Cliff Hardy. [1]

Contents

Premise

Cliff Hardy is hired to guard a minister of the crown.

Reception

The Age wrote "the story moves well enough but the characters seem to have come out of a glossy magazine for women." [2]

The Sydney Morning Herald felt "Corris, normally the most fluent of storytellers, stumbles through The January Zone unsure of his direction." [3]

The Canberra Times said the novel was "not the best in the Hardy series. Some characters remain unusually flat and drab, the political sub-plots are trite, and the action some times stops abruptly or drifts off into inconsequential interludes. But the author still enjoys and deploys a rich range of talent." [4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Peirce, Peter (25 June 2018). "Peter Corris: A Cascade of Fiction". Sydney Review of Books. Retrieved 1 February 2025.
  2. ↑ Davie, Ray (12 September 1987). "Crime". The Age. p. 14.
  3. ↑ Shaw, John (19 September 1987). "Hardy, come home!". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 46.
  4. ↑ "Better to buy than borrow". The Canberra Times . Vol. 62, no. 18, 964. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 5 September 1987. p. 5 (It's Saturday). Retrieved 21 February 2025– via National Library of Australia.
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