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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 The Night Swim
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'In this new thriller from the author of The Escape Room, a podcast host covering a controversial trial in a small town becomes obsessed with a brutal crime that took place there years before.

'After the first season of her true crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall is now a household name – and the last hope for thousands of people seeking justice. But she’s used to being recognised for her voice, not her face. Which makes it all the more unsettling when she finds a note on her car windshield, addressed to her, begging for help.

'The small town of Neapolis is being torn apart by a devastating rape trial. The town’s golden boy, a swimmer destined for Olympic greatness, has been accused of raping a high school student, the beloved granddaughter of the police chief. Under pressure to make Season Three a success, Rachel throws herself into interviewing and investigating – but the mysterious letters keep showing up in unexpected places. Someone is following her, and she won’t stop until Rachel finds out what happened to her sister twenty-five years ago. Officially, Jenny Stills tragically drowned, but the letters insists she was murdered – and when Rachel starts asking questions, nobody seems to want to answer. The past and present start to collide as Rachel uncovers startling connections between the two cases that will change the course of the trial and the lives of everyone involved.

'Electrifying and propulsive, The Night Swim asks: What is the price of a reputation? Can a small town ever right the wrongs of its past? And what really happened to Jenny?' (Publication summary)

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    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Michael Joseph , 2020 .
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      Extent: 352p.
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      • Published: 4 August 2020
      ISBN: 9781760897208
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2021 .
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      Extent: 352p.
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      • Published November 2021

      ISBN: 9781761045752
    • London,
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      Mirror Books ,
      2021 .
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      Extent: 352p.p.
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      • Published 21 January 2021.
      ISBN: 9781913406479
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      St. Martin's Press ,
      2022 .
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      Extent: 416p.p.
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      • Published 24 May 2022.
      ISBN: 9781250848130, 125084813X
Alternative title: شنای شبانه
Language: Persian

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  • Sound recording.
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Works about this Work

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)

Secretive, Scarred and Stubborn Robyn Walton , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 22 August 2020; (p. 16)

— Review of When She Was Good Michael Robotham , 2020 single work novel ; Prey L. A. Larkin , 2020 single work novel ; The Night Swim Megan Goldin , 2020 single work novel
Secretive, Scarred and Stubborn Robyn Walton , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 22 August 2020; (p. 16)

— Review of When She Was Good Michael Robotham , 2020 single work novel ; Prey L. A. Larkin , 2020 single work novel ; The Night Swim Megan Goldin , 2020 single work novel
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)

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