New Year's Day, Sydney. The bodies of a beautiful young Aboriginal woman and her boyfriend are discovered in a Redfern stormwater drain. Who is the killer and will he strike again? The Aboriginal Homicide Unit are on the case.
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A Dark, Compelling Mystery Down Under,
By Franklin Hobbs (Philadelphia, PA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Scream Black Murder (Hardcover)
The best books are the ones that after you read, you realize you've learned a great many things you didn't know before. Such is the case with Scream Black Murder, by Aboriginal writer Philip McLaren. To begin with, this is a suspensful, white-knuckled thriller. The author does an amazing job getting in the head of a deranged killer who targets aboriginal women in and around Sydney, Australia. Assigned to crack the case is Gary and Lisa, the first aboriginal detectives in the history of the force. Not only must they compete in a thrilling game of cat and mouse with the killer, but they must also perform under a prejudiced police department, many of which would like to see them fail. Apart from a superb story, McLaren also succeeds in illuminating the social and racial issues of Australia--a history of a people oppressed that isn't included in most high school textbooks. It is a relevent, realistic story that will give you a glimpse of a culture suffering from many of the same prejudices as our own. I highly recommend this book; and I am looking forward to "investigating" the other WorldKrime books put out by the publisher, all of which apparently offer similiar multi-culured views of different countries.
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Australian best seller and national prize winning book.,
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This review is from: Scream Black Murder (Paperback)
Sydney Morning Herald:Headline: "Black deaths, black lives" "... unless there's something I don't know about, Philip McLaren's excellent Scream Black Murder is still only the second crime fiction novel by an Aboriginal writer." "Some of the incidents had me thinking, 'this couldn't possibly happen in Australia', then when I thought about it a bit more, I realised how naive I was being. "... Scream Black Murder is a superb novel that's both tough and tender. In it we're presented with a straight-from-the-shoulder novel of criminality that's as evocative and powerful as Walter Mosley's series about the black ghettos of Los Angeles. High praise but McLaren deserves it."
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New South Wales, Alan Jackson, David Gundy, Doctor Nick, Peter Simpson, Australia Today, Danny Renaldo, Lisa Fuller, Ross Fleischman, Channel Eight, Colin Richards, Detective Leslie, Eveleigh Street, Marble Bar, Bombala House, Mark Poulos, Maxie Ellis, Opera House, Ruby Simpson, Detective Gary Leslie, More Information Required, Mount Isa New!
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New South Wales, Alan Jackson, David Gundy, Doctor Nick, Peter Simpson, Australia Today, Danny Renaldo, Lisa Fuller, Ross Fleischman, Channel Eight, Colin Richards, Detective Leslie, Eveleigh Street, Marble Bar, Bombala House, Mark Poulos, Maxie Ellis, Opera House, Ruby Simpson, Detective Gary Leslie, More Information Required, Mount Isa New!
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