David Whish-Wilson lives in Fremantle, Western Australia, where he teaches creative writing at Curtin University. He is the author of short stories and the novel The Summons, published in 2006. David's new novel, Line of Sight was published in Sept 2010. Read more...

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12/03/13 || Zero at the Bone - publication date
11/12/12 || Next Big Thing - Felicity Young, Greig Johnston and Stephen Dedman
05/12/12 || Next Big Thing - new book meme
02/10/12 || CRIME FACTORY launch of HARD LABOUR - all Oz Crime anthology - 8 October @ Grumpy's Green in Collingwood
21/08/12 || Update - CrimeScene conference - Perth, 29-30 Sept
19/08/12 || Ghost Money by Andrew Nette (Snubnose Press, 2012)
16/07/12 || Katherine Susannah Pritchard masterclass(es) & Bridgetown Writer's Festival
16/07/12 || Line of Sight - New Reprint
04/05/12 || Perth - New South Books
16/04/12 || crimeScene Conference 29-30 September 2012
20/02/12 || Crime Factory - The First Shift
03/02/12 || Perth Writer's Festival - 25/02 - A Glass of Wine Wine & A Good Book series
01/02/12 || TVPiazza - interview
17/01/12 || Line of Sight - available on Amazon
12/01/12 || Line of Sight & 2011"5 Best Of" Lists

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Before Gangland there were the scams of the 70s, when getting rich made life cheap...

"When a brothel madam is shot on a Perth golf course in 1975 it should be a routine murder enquiry. But there's barely an investigation at all, and Superintendent Swann thinks he knows why. Heroin is the new drug in town, and the money is finding its way into some very respectable hands.

"It's the brave or the foolish who accuse their fellow cops of corruption, especially when those Swann's pointing the finger at have mates in every stronghold of power – big business, organised crime, the government.

"He might have won the first round by forcing a royal commission, but the judge is an ailing patsy and the outcome seems predetermined. If that's not enough to contend with, Swann's teenage daughter has disappeared, and the word on the street is he's a dead man walking..."

Line of Sight is classic crime noir, a tale of dark corruption set in a city of sun and heat... READ an EXTRACT: Download PDF - 41.43 KB

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