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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 A Murder Without Motive
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In 2004, the body of a young Perth woman was found on the grounds of a primary school. Her name was Rebecca Ryle. The killing would mystify investigators, lawyers, and psychologists - and profoundly rearrange the life of the victim's family.

It would also involve the author's family, because his brother knew the man charged with the murder. For years, the two had circled each other suspiciously, in a world of violence, drugs, and rotten aspirations.

A Murder Without Motive is a police procedural, a meditation on suffering, and an exploration of how the different parts of the justice system make sense of the senseless. It is also a unique memoir: a mapping of the suburbs that the author grew up in, and a revelation of the dangerous underbelly of adolescent ennui. (Scribe Publications)

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    • Brunswick, Brunswick - Coburg area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Scribe , 2016 .
      Extent: 240pp.
      ISBN: 9781925321357

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What I’m Reading Elizabeth Flux , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2018;
Crime Scene : Martin McKenzie-Murry A Murder Without Motive : The Killing of Rebecca Ryle Michael Jongen , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , May 2016;

— Review of A Murder Without Motive Martin McKenzie-Murray , 2016 single work biography
Martin McKenzie-Murray, A Murder Without Motive FL , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 6 February 2016;

— Review of A Murder Without Motive Martin McKenzie-Murray , 2016 single work biography
[Untitled] Derek Pedley , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 13 February 2016; (p. 27)

— Review of A Murder Without Motive Martin McKenzie-Murray , 2016 single work biography
[Untitled] Derek Pedley , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 13 February 2016; (p. 27)

— Review of A Murder Without Motive Martin McKenzie-Murray , 2016 single work biography
Martin McKenzie-Murray, A Murder Without Motive FL , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 6 February 2016;

— Review of A Murder Without Motive Martin McKenzie-Murray , 2016 single work biography
Crime Scene : Martin McKenzie-Murry A Murder Without Motive : The Killing of Rebecca Ryle Michael Jongen , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , May 2016;

— Review of A Murder Without Motive Martin McKenzie-Murray , 2016 single work biography
What I’m Reading Elizabeth Flux , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2018;
Last amended 20 Oct 2020 12:55:09
Subjects:
  • Perth, Western Australia,
  • Mindarie, Wanneroo area, Northern Perth, Perth, Western Australia,
  • ca. 2004-2014
Settings:
  • Perth, Western Australia,
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