Southern Cross Crime by Craig Sisterson

Southern Cross Crime by Craig SistersonAustralian and New Zealand crime and thriller writing is booming globally, with antipodean authors regularly featuring on awards and bestseller lists across Europe and North America, and overseas readers and publishers looking more and more to tales from lands Down Under.

Without doubt Australiana is an unnerving contribution to contemporary novel writing in this continent

Between sapwood and heartwood

and Joanna Jacana only wants to sleep

She is extraordinary but vulnerable

an enraged black militant is on the war-path through the rebel squats of 1960s' Brixton

Height: 397mm

Then a faint Morse code signal is picked up

best of all

But that was nothing compared to the psychiatric ward at Menzies Hospital

A mesmerizing novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unexpected visitor""”a tale of family

but could there be even bigger prizes on the horizon

to the west's aqua waters