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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 The Bluffs
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'At the bottom of the world, there is an island. It is a land of rugged wilderness, of ice and snow and blistering heat, of the oldest tress on earth ... They say extinct tigers still roam there. They say other things roam, too.

'When a school group of teenage girls go missing in the remote wilderness of Tasmania's Great Western Tiers, the people of Limestone Creek are immediately on alert. Not long ago, six young girls went missing in the area of those dangerous bluffs, and the legends of 'the Hungry Man' still haunt locals to this day.

'Now, authorities can determine that the teacher, Eliza Ellis, was knocked unconscious, so someone on the mountain was up to foul play. Jordan Murphy, father of missing student Jasmine and the town's local dealer, instantly becomes prime suspect, but Detective Con Badenhorst knows that in a town this size - with corrupt cops, small-town politics, and a teenage YouTube sensation - anyone could be hiding something, and bluffing comes second nature.

'When a body is found, mauled, at the bottom of a cliff, suspicion turns to a wild animal - but that can't explain why she, like all victims past and present, was discovered barefoot, with her shoes found nearby, laces neatly tied.

'What happened up there on the bluffs? Somebody knows... unless the local legends are true...' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Michael Joseph , 2020 .
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      Extent: 432p.
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      • Published 2nd July 2020
      ISBN: 9781760895679 (trade pbk), 9781760895686 (ebk)
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2021 .
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      Extent: 432p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 2 July 2021
      ISBN: 9781761041891
Alternative title: Järsakud
Language: Estonian
    • Tallinn,
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      Estonia,
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      Former Soviet Union,
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      Eastern Europe, Europe,
      :
      Ühinenud Ajakirjad ,
      2021 .
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      Extent: 432p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 15 March 2021.
      ISBN: 9789916634035

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Works about this Work

Faith and Trust and Pixie Dust : Counselling and the Creative Process Kyle Perry , 2021 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Griffith Review , April no. 72 2021; (p. 185-194)
Investigations : Three New Crime Novels David Whish-Wilson , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 424 2020; (p. 36-37)

— Review of The Bluffs Kyle Perry , 2020 single work novel ; Sticks and Stones Katherine Firkin , 2020 single work novel ; The Night Swim Megan Goldin , 2020 single work novel

'You wouldn’t envy any writer releasing a novel at the moment, due to the difficulties getting books in front of readers, yet recent UK statistics indicate a surge in crime fiction sales following the relaxing of lockdown restrictions and the reopening of bookshops. It’s hard to say whether the same optimistic reading of the crime fiction market in Australia holds true, though two new crime novels by début authors – Kyle Perry’s The Bluffs (Michael Joseph, $32.99 pb, 432 pp) and Katherine Firkin’s Sticks and Stones (Bantam, $32.99 pb, 392 pp) – appear to have well and truly jumped out of the blocks. And it’s fair to assume that, given the international commercial and critical success of Megan Goldin’s terrific début novel, The Escape Room, her new book, The Night Swim (Michael Joseph, $32.99 pb, 352 pp), will appeal to antipodean readers this winter.' (Introduction)

Investigations : Three New Crime Novels David Whish-Wilson , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 424 2020; (p. 36-37)

— Review of The Bluffs Kyle Perry , 2020 single work novel ; Sticks and Stones Katherine Firkin , 2020 single work novel ; The Night Swim Megan Goldin , 2020 single work novel

'You wouldn’t envy any writer releasing a novel at the moment, due to the difficulties getting books in front of readers, yet recent UK statistics indicate a surge in crime fiction sales following the relaxing of lockdown restrictions and the reopening of bookshops. It’s hard to say whether the same optimistic reading of the crime fiction market in Australia holds true, though two new crime novels by début authors – Kyle Perry’s The Bluffs (Michael Joseph, $32.99 pb, 432 pp) and Katherine Firkin’s Sticks and Stones (Bantam, $32.99 pb, 392 pp) – appear to have well and truly jumped out of the blocks. And it’s fair to assume that, given the international commercial and critical success of Megan Goldin’s terrific début novel, The Escape Room, her new book, The Night Swim (Michael Joseph, $32.99 pb, 352 pp), will appeal to antipodean readers this winter.' (Introduction)

Faith and Trust and Pixie Dust : Counselling and the Creative Process Kyle Perry , 2021 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Griffith Review , April no. 72 2021; (p. 185-194)
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