The Pit
By the author of THE STONING, "The crime debut of the year"
$24.23
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
8 July 2024
Summary
“Outback noir has a new star” - Mark Sanderson, The Times
With DS Manolis on leave in Greece, Senior Constable Sparrow receives a phone call from a man who wants to turn himself in.
Bob is sixty-five years old, confined to a Perth nursing home. But thirty years ago, he killed a man in the remote northern Kimberley mining region. He offers to show Sparrow where the body is, but there’s a catch: Sparrow must travel north with him under the guise of bein…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529424515 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529424518 |
| Author: | Peter Papathanasiou |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 8 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 194mm x 128mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
Peter Papathanasiou is a rising star of crime fiction … Half crime novel, half social history, The Pit shows the versatility of the genre in the hands of a gifted writer – Joan Smith * Sunday Times *Darkly immersive Aussie Noir at its very best * Irish Independent *Peter Papathanasiou has a voice like no one else writing Australian crime fiction and delivers another larger-than-life, take-no-prisoners slice of outback noir. A truly original writer. – Emma Styles * author of NO COUNTRY FOR GIRLS, winner of the 2023 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize *
About The Author
Peter Papathanasiou
Peter Papathanasiou was born in northern Greece and adopted as a baby to an Australian family. His writing has been published internationally by The New York Times, Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Canberra Times, Daily Telegraph, The ABC, SBS, Huffington Post. He also holds an MA in Creative Writing from City University, London, and a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the Australian National University. His first book, a memoir Son of Mine was published in 2019 by Salt.
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