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Jane Goodall was born in England but now lives in Australia where she lectures in Drama at the University of Western Sydney. Her books to date features Detective Briony Williams, a rookie police officer working some tough cases under tough conditions, the books are dark edge of the seat thrillers. |
To get more details, the dustjacket summary plus my own review, click on the titles.
| The Walker (2004) ***Buy*** |
The Calling (2007) ***Buy*** |
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The Visitor (2005) ***Buy*** |
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Reviews for The Visitor (released July '05)
Sue Turnbull in The Age says : ...Although the second in a series is usually doomed to disappoint, I liked The Visitor even better because it gets down and dirty with the kinds of bizarre (and batty) British folklore that makes me proud to be a Celt. If you don't know your equinox from your solstice, start here.
Like Barry Maitland, Goodall is a British-born academic resident in Australia who chooses to set her crime stories in the UK. Unlike Maitland, with his acute topicality in terms of social trends and tensions, Goodall locates her stories in the past, the 1960s and '70s... For the full review, please click here |
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The Walker : Plymouth 1967: Schoolgirl Nell Adams, all the newspapers reported, finds murder victim on train. And her photo covers the front pages. So he knew her name and her face. His face, or lack of it, filled her nightmares until she woke screaming...
London 1971: Nell is a university student in London, trying to put the past behind her. But as a series of murders reveals a killer obsessed with Jack the Ripper, she realises her nightmares might be coming true.
Detective Briony Williams, also just starting out on her life on London, is part of the team tracking down The Walker. The killer is a practised anatomist with a theatrical streak, arranging his victims' bodies in twisted parodies of Hogarth's engravings. He sends a perfectly extracted eye to the police in a Tupperware container, with a defiant message. He's planning a reunion with the schoolgirl who found his first victim.
Two young women, so full of hope and possibility, soon discover that new times mask age-old evil in this dark psychological thriller. |
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