Description:
It is 1979, and Perth is jumping with pub bands and overnight millionaires. When a serial killer's grim deeds cast a dark shadow over the City of Light, Constable Snowy Lane's life and career will be forever changed.
Brief description: Dave Warner is a writer and musician. He is a winner of the Western Australian Premier's Award for Fiction and the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction, and has been named a Western Australian Living Treasure. He has written fourteen crime fiction novels, and has also written for feature film, television and stage.
Review Quotes:
'Lively, funny, with enough plot for three novels.' Sun-Herald
'Warner consistently hits the target, skilfully creating a parallel world where crooks, their victims and pursuers breathe a different fetid air. His first novel is full of surprises and contradictions, wit and suspense, and could only have been pulled off by someone as audacious and confident as a reinvented musician who has died a million times on stage in a thousand cold rooms, using a borrowed guitar and someone else's suit.' Graeme Blundell, Weekend Australian
'With its false leads, strange connections and quick pace, [this] is an enjoyable tale.' Fremantle Herald
'One of the Australian crime novels that people should read.' Body Dabbler
'... alive with the flavours, rhythms, cadences, corporate buccaneering and political adventurism of that era ... so good one wonder[s] what Warner could possibly do for an encore.' Australian Book Review
'The plot is impressively complex, with clues scattered like land mines, and the suspense enough to keep you riveted to this thriller.' Courier Times
Western Australian Premier's Award (Co-winner 1996)