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... [the gun] lay on its side and judged my drinking. Halfway down a bottle of Wild Turkey one night, I started asking the gun what it’s fucking solution to everything was if it was so smart. A gun has only one answer.
CW for: rape of a child, child pornography, murder, abuse of a dog, and death of a (different) dog.
This is exactly my kind of book: a murder mystery featuring a rough-around-the-edges detective who has been broken down by circumstances and is struggling to get his life back ...more
Ted Conkaffney was a detective on the drug squad until he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Nearly everyone believes raped and tried to murder a 13 year old girl. The charges were dropped and Ted flees Sydney for the fictional Crimson Lake to try to get away from the publicity. His lawyer connects him with Amanda Pharell who murdered a school mate and became a private detective after being released from prison. Amanda and Ted are searching for a missing writer. The book was very dark in
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Almost too many sins placed upon the shoulders of the main character , but if you can accept his beleaguered self, Ted Concaffey is an interesting protagonist and I liked his geese.
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