Canticle Creek

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A local has died in what seems like an accident, but Jessie isn’t so sure that ‘accident’ wasn’t planned.

Canticle Creek (Adrian Hyland, Ultimo) | Books+Publishing

In this way, she also examines “how the inner life of the subject is knitted together with the outer life of the times”, whether it be Kevin Rudd’s narcissism or John Howard’s use of the word “blemish” to describe the dispossession of Australia’s original inhabitants. This quirky neologism comes from the menu of an Indian restaurant and aptly captures the freewheeling mix of offerings from humorist David Sedaris’s most recent diary entries 2013-2020. She’s trying to make a difference with the way she approaches her job and feels she’s on the right track. His books have been published internationally, including in Britain and the US, and translated into a variety of languages, including German, French, Swedish and Czech.When Daisy Baker is found murdered near the Victorian country town of Canticle Creek, the police are quick to pin the crime on her boyfriend, Adam, found dead in his car “trying to escape” the crime scene. With plenty of healthy descriptions of the surrounding natural landscape, which is further compounded by the piecing heat, the sense of place is overwhelming in this tale. And she is surrounded by a range of interesting side characters no more so than her cantankerous but talented father Ben and horse-riding teenager and wannabe side-kick Possum (Alice).

Canticle Creek - Kindle edition by Hyland, Adrian. Mystery

Possum, a sixteen-year-old young woman who had more smarts than some adults Jesse had met, was intelligent and helpful. My response rate went up and down with this one, but I think Canticle Creek would be ideal for seasoned readers of Australian crime noir.There were sulphur-crested women with orange skin and hazardous heels, feral businessmen with titanium teeth and statement ties. Three months later, Jesse hears about Adam’s death, from a car wreck after killing his own girlfriend Daisy in Canticle Creek, a small town near Melbourne.

Canticle Creek by Adrian Hyland | Waterstones

She’s convinced Adam would never have murdered Daisy, the woman he loved and after meeting a few of the locals, is convinced there is something very wrong in the town. As Jesse made herself known to the local cops, she made some friends – and enemies - while investigating. Canticle Creek has the feel of the Outback, of small town claustrophobia, but also the encroaching perils that the city and the wider world bring. When Daisy Baker’s body is discovered on her outback property the case appears to be straightforward.Adam had hitched a ride to Victoria with a girl he’d recently met and was now being accused of her murder, then after stealing her car, he lost control of it on a nearby country road and crashed killing himself outright. So when Adam absconds from a last-chance-before-jail situation that Jesse lined up for him, and winds up dead in Canticle Creek, Victoria - accused of murder no less - Jesse takes it to heart. She was a character I wanted to know so much more about but I was left with only seeing the outside of her and her drastic and sometimes clever actions, rather than getting to know her from the inside out. Adam Lawson was a loveable rogue, he left his graffiti everywhere but Jesse could see potential in his graffiti, when he came up before the magistrate, Jesse persuaded the magistrate to allow Adam to live with her father and work at a local bar, this worked well, her artist father could see Adam's talent and nurtured it. Life and death that almost feels tangible with some remarkably powerful, visceral and disturbing imagery at play.