Blackwattle Creek

Blackwattle Creek
Author Geoffrey McGeachin
Country Australia
Language English
Series Charlie Berlin
Genre Crime novel
Publisher Viking Books, Australia
Publication date
2012
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 281
ISBN 9780670075881
Preceded by The Diggers Rest Hotel
Followed by St Kilda Blues

Blackwattle Creek (2012) is a crime novel by Australian author Geoffrey McGeachin. It is the second in the author's Charlie Berlin mystery series and won the 2013 Ned Kelly Award.

Plot summary

Ten years after the events of the first book in the series, The Diggers Rest Hotel, Charlie Berlin is now married and living in Melbourne. His innocent investigations to strange goings-on at a funeral parlour for a friend, leads him to Blackwattle Creek, a former asylum for the criminally insane, to Cold War paranoia and corrupt policemen.

Reviews

Fair Dinkum Crime thought the novel to built to be a "ripper of a yarn" and that the author "has excelled at drawing out the small details of life that depict a time and place to perfection".[1] In The Guardian, Andrew Nette found a dark, "unsettling yarn" and was "genuinely interested to know where McGeachin is going to take Berlin next".[2]

Awards and nominations

References

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