St Kilda Blues

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Viking
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 381 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A serial killers work goes unnoticed until Detective Berlin is on the case in this third spine-tingling Charlie Berlin novel.Its 1967, the summer of love, and in swinging Melbourne Detective Sergeant Charlie Berlin has been hauled out of exile in the Fraud Squad to investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl, the daughter of a powerful and politically connected property developer. As Berlins inquiries uncover more missing girls he gets an uneasy feeling he may be dealing with the citys first serial killer.Berlins investigation leads him through inner-city discothèques, hip photographic studios, the emerging drug culture and into the seedy back streets of St Kilda. The investigation also brings up ghosts of Berlins past as a bomber pilot and POW in Europe and disturbing memories of the casual murder of a young woman he witnessed on a snow-covered road in Poland in the wars dying days. As in war, some victories come at a terrible cost and Berlin will have to face an awful truth and endure an unimaginable loss before his investigation is over.St Kilda Blues is Geoffrey McGeachins seventh book and third in the Charlie Berlin series. The first Berlin novel, The Diggers Rest Hotel, won the 2011 Australian Crime Writers Associations Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction with the follow up book, Blackwattle Creek, also winning the Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction in 2013.

ISBN: 9780670075898