The Suburbs of Hell
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His eyes are on the one eye of the rifle. His mouth splits open his brown beard. He throws up a hand, palm outward, in an unwilled, futile gesture to ward off death. A killer is hounding the seaside town of Old Tornwich. Residents are gripped by fear and suspicion, and the finger of blame is pointed in all directions. But the bodies keep falling and the crimes remain unsolved, the culprit at large. No mere whodunnit, The Suburbs of Hell—its story inspired by a real-life serial killer—is a profoundly disturbing psychological drama with a devastating conclusion, the final work of one of Australia’s greatest writers.
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A killer is on the loose and as some locals are murdered the reader is dragged into the paranoia and fear of those that think they know, those that just live in fear and those that may or may not have reasons to kill. The layers of each chapter has one thinking about the human condition. The dark side of the psyche is revealed by some excellent writing that had me reading late into the night.
Though a cold and grim read this is a very good book. Randolph Stow: a great unknown Australian writer.
