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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Winter Traffic
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'Sutton doesn’t like the three a.m. phone calls. He should change his number—that way Rawson wouldn’t have it. Sutton’s best mate is a hero cop, but strife flows through him like a highway.

'He was supposed to die young. Maybe Millar will do it for him: she’s the hot young detective from Internal who still thinks intellect and integrity will take her places. If she doesn’t watch her step, she might find out what they are…

'This is the story of good dogs living in a bad-news town—a fragrant harbour city where the judges are dead, the vendettas lively and every glittering fortune hides a sin.

'An epic novel of corruption, murder and the true nature of justice, Winter Traffic announces the arrival of a compelling new voice in literary crime.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Margaret & Jim

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Text Publishing , 2017 .
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      Extent: 399p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 30 January 2017
      ISBN: 9781925355628

Works about this Work

Nexus between Overlords and Underworld Ed Wright , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18 March 2017; (p. 20)
'Nexus between overlords and underworldLiterary crime is an intriguing subgenre. At its worst it’s the application of pretentious lyricism to the seedier side of life, the exchange of the clipped style of Elmore Leonard or Garry Disher for convoluted musings about murder. At its best, however, it uses the premise of crime to explore cities, social structures and the dark spaces of our psyches, with language that captures the intensity of paranoia and violent fantasy.' (Introduction)
[Review Essay] : Winter Traffic QSS , 2017 single work review essay
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 4 February 2017;
'Sometimes a work of trash fiction comes along with such blatant pretensions that readers are lining up to be impressed by the eloquence with which they are entertained. And so it is with Winter Traffic, this entangled depiction of guys and girls, murders and mutated honours, set by sultry Sydney waters, with the humidity of a writer who wants you to know that he knows this kind of melodrama goes back to the Jacobeans.' ((Introduction)
[Review Essay] : Winter Traffic QSS , 2017 single work review essay
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 4 February 2017;
'Sometimes a work of trash fiction comes along with such blatant pretensions that readers are lining up to be impressed by the eloquence with which they are entertained. And so it is with Winter Traffic, this entangled depiction of guys and girls, murders and mutated honours, set by sultry Sydney waters, with the humidity of a writer who wants you to know that he knows this kind of melodrama goes back to the Jacobeans.' ((Introduction)
Nexus between Overlords and Underworld Ed Wright , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18 March 2017; (p. 20)
'Nexus between overlords and underworldLiterary crime is an intriguing subgenre. At its worst it’s the application of pretentious lyricism to the seedier side of life, the exchange of the clipped style of Elmore Leonard or Garry Disher for convoluted musings about murder. At its best, however, it uses the premise of crime to explore cities, social structures and the dark spaces of our psyches, with language that captures the intensity of paranoia and violent fantasy.' (Introduction)
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