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History
Penguin's Most Wanted crime writing competition searched for new Australian crime talent. It was open to all writers resident in Australia. The winning novel was published by Penguin.
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Death and the Running Patterer
Camberwell
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Michael Joseph
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2009
Z1600276
2009
single work
novel
crime
detective
historical fiction
Sydney, 1828. All is not well. One of the convict colony's soldiers had been murdered and Governor Ralph Darling is not pleased. Reluctantly, he turns to Nicodemus Dunne for help. Dunne, a fallen Bow Street Runner now transported to Australia, makes his living as a running patterer, hawking news on the dusty streets. Only he has the detective skills required to chase down the ritual killer and stop the ever-bewildering series of gruesome murders that follow the first. As he searches, Dunne joins forces with the entrancing seamstress Rachel Dormin and soon discovers that too many people, from the Governor down, have secrets worth killing for. When he gets too close to unveiling the murderer and to the secrets buried in his own past, even his life hangs in the balance. (Publisher's website)
