Blackwattle Creek (2012) is a crime novel by Australian author Geoffrey McGeachin. It is the second in the author's Charlie Berlin mystery series and won the 2013 Ned Kelly Award.[1]
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| Author | Geoffrey McGeachin |
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| 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 |
Plot summary
editTen 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.
Reviews
editFair 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]
Awards and nominations
edit- 2013 winner Ned Kelly Award – Best Novel[4]
References
edit- ^ "Blackwattle Creek". Austlit. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
- ^ "Review: Blackwattle Creek by Geoffrey McGeachin", Fair Dinkum Crime, 12 July 2012
- ^ "Blackwattle Creek – a rereading of the Ned Kelly award winner 2013" by Andrew Nette, The Guardian, 10 September 2013
- ^ "Ned Kelly Awards Previous Winners: Best Fiction". ACWA. Retrieved 9 June 2023.