Diamond DoveText Publishing Company, 2006 - 322 pages Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Fiction 2007. Take a nail-biting mystery, an epic setting and a heroine with a talent for stirring things up then throw in an affectionate flogging of outback Australia's melanoma-encrusted hide, and Diamond Dove may be the wittiest and most gripping Australian crime novel you'll read this year. |
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