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Good Reading : July 2017
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GOODREADINGMAGAZINE.COM.AU GOOD READING JULY 2017 12 NAME M R OFFENDER BIO Born in the summer of 1960 in a country town with ‘more dogs than people and more flies than dogs’, this journalist gone rogue now runs his criminal dealings from Sydney’s Northern Beaches. His weapon of choice is a Gold Dagger, a prized blade given to him by the UK’s Crime Writers’ Association for the best crime novel of the year. He beat Stephen King to win the dagger in 2015 for his novel Life or Death, which was inspired by double murderer Anthony Lanigan, who escaped from a maximum-security prison through a tunnel he dug over the course of two years. He has never been found, although it is believed that police are organising a warrant to search Robotham’s basement. CRIMINAL HISTORY: Profilers have speculated that exposure to Stalin’s Hitler files during Robotham’s reporting career may have influenced his turn from respected journalist to dastardly crime wr iter. After working as a ghostwriter for popstars and politicians, Robotham committed his first major offence in 2004 with The Suspect, a novel about a psychologist who finds one of his patients seemingly stabbed to death by her own hand. A string of psychological thrillers followed, including Lost and Shatter, which both won the Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel, to the authorities’ increasing concern. He now has 12 major novels under his belt, and police are itching for Robotham to make a wrong move – but so far he’s slipped through their fingers every time. MOST RECENT INFRINGEMENT: The Secrets She Keeps. The one thing Agatha looks forward to all day at her shelf-stacking job is catching a glimpse of Meghan, the effortlessly chic customer whose elegant lifestyle dazzles her. She, like Agatha, is pregnant, and their due dates fall within the same month. Now that they have something in common, Agatha finally musters the courage to speak to her. Does it matter that she doesn’t tell Meghan the truth about herself? That her life is a knot of dark secrets? The lives of these two women become dangerously entangled until their secrets are exposed by one shocking act that cannot be undone. NAME K D OFFENDER BIO: There are images on file of Karen Dionne engaging in seemingly innocuous hobbies, such as gardening, weaving, and building N-scale model train layouts. But it would be foolish to assume this nefarious nanna wasn’t planning something sinister as she clipped her gardenias. This grey-haired malefactor has a penchant for organised crime and sharp short stor ies. She’s offer ing handwr itten postcards to those who pre-order her books, but it’s yet to be seen whether this correspondence is correlated with a recent spate of anthrax-related deaths in the homes of crime readers. CRIMINAL HISTORY: After having short fiction and essays appear in dubious publications such as Writer’s Digest and Bathtub Gin, Dionne’s first major misdeed was the writing of Freezing Point, an environmental thriller that involved a shattered ice shelf and an erupting volcano. FULLY BOOKED A rogues’ gallery of crime writers is due to strike again this month with new novels. Check out the police files of this gang of four to find out about their histories of iniquity and their most recent felonious shenanigans. Crime wr iter mugshots
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