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'Ex-detective Frank Swann is now on the outside of the police force – the only way to get justice done in Perth. In 1979 the city is a place of celebration and corruption. There are street parties, official glad-handing – even a royal visit – to commemorate a century and a half since colonisation. But behind the festivities a new kind of land grab is going on, this time for mining leases. The price of gold is up and very few, it seems, are incorruptible before its lure.
When Swann is hired to probe the suicide of a respected geologist, he's drawn into a mire of vice and fraud, at the centre of which sit the directors of a gold-lease consortium. They're an unlikely collection of the seemingly respectable and the clearly not, with one thing in common: a lust for wealth that verges on a disease.
For an old-school tough guy like Swann, that's a gauntlet he just has to pick up . . .' (Publisher's blurb)
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Dedication: For Fairlie Rose
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Recent Australian Fiction
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8-9 February 2014; (p. 22)
— Review of Harry Curry : Rats and Mice 2013 single work novel ; The Antibiography of Robert F. Menzies 2013 single work novel ; Partners : Love is a Law Unto Itself 2013 selected work short story ; Zero at the Bone 2013 single work novel -
Review : Zero at the Bone
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , November 2013; (p. 37)
— Review of Zero at the Bone 2013 single work novel -
Well Read
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , vol. 12 October no. 2013; (p. 20)
— Review of Zero at the Bone 2013 single work novel ; The Raven's Eye 2013 single work novel -
Zero at the Bone
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 14-15 December 2013; (p. 28)
— Review of Zero at the Bone 2013 single work novel -
WA Inc.
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 356 2013;
— Review of Zero at the Bone 2013 single work novel
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WA Writing Recommends
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 27 August 2013; (p. 6)
— Review of Hatched : Celebrating 20 Years of the Tim Winton Award for Young Writers 2013 anthology short story ; The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt 2012 single work novel ; Unearthed 2013 selected work poetry ; Zac and Mia 2013 single work novel ; Zero at the Bone 2013 single work novel -
David Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone; Stuart Littlemore Harry Curry, Rats and Mice
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , September 2013;
— Review of Harry Curry : Rats and Mice 2013 single work novel ; Zero at the Bone 2013 single work novel -
WA Inc.
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 356 2013;
— Review of Zero at the Bone 2013 single work novel -
Zero at the Bone
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 14-15 December 2013; (p. 28)
— Review of Zero at the Bone 2013 single work novel -
Recent Australian Fiction
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8-9 February 2014; (p. 22)
— Review of Harry Curry : Rats and Mice 2013 single work novel ; The Antibiography of Robert F. Menzies 2013 single work novel ; Partners : Love is a Law Unto Itself 2013 selected work short story ; Zero at the Bone 2013 single work novel -
Crime Hits in Boom Times
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 3 September 2013; (p. 6-7)
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