Straiijht...an insurance inrestigator recalled to his childhood Home uncovers a body and ghosts from his past.
Beat unseen stranger conłuses a crime writer with the characters who stalk the pages of his books. Barbara Vine...a conservator restoring a flood-damaged Venice crypt suspects that hes been implicated in a murder.
Twelve dazzling stories by an award-winning author writing at the peak ol his ability, introduced by an elegant testament to the writing process itself.
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'a deftness that takes the breath away TtlK ĄuSTRAfJAN
‘precise, assured and resonant’ TheAGF.
‘objects and situations glow with a mysterious inner menacc’ THE INDEPENDEM'MoNTIILY ‘one ol Australia s best and most innovative story writer s’ Austrauan Book Rirnrw
‘Disher is delivering the best crime fiction around’
Peter Corris
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