Crime fiction in Perth and Western Australia ‹Crimerads

Perth, capital of Western Australia, fourth tower “Down Under” on the Swan River and with the charming port city of Fremantle nearby. Founded in 1829 as a city as Swan River Colony in the traditional countries of the Wadjuk and the Noglar peoples. The city was booming gold storm in the nineteenth century and today still benefits from all the valuable “dirt” in the countries of the state. And of course it is also a center of the ongoing Australian crime wave….

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Let's start with David Whish-Wilson, the author of Ten Novels. His Lee Southern novels play in Western Australia. True West (2019) began in 1988 when 17-year-old Lee Southern finds the Knights Bikie Gang (Aussie for Hells Angels Outfits) and the work as a slip driver in Perth. There he encounters right extremists, extortionists and kidnappers. It is pure noir style in the Western Australia. Lee returns I'm already dead (2023) Investigation of a series of bribes that aim at a wealthy entrepreneur. Now he has retired with Pi Frank Swann. Both books that were originally published in Australia by the Great Kleine Presse Femantle books that specialize in authors from West Australians or who live in the area.

Go a bit back and Frank Swann was a policeman. In Line of sight (2010) He is superintendent Swann from the police in Western Australia and a local brothel that was shot on a Perth golf course in 1975. Heroin is the new drug in the city and the money finds its way into some very respectable hands. Swann returns Zero on the bone (2013). Now it is Perth in 1979 and a royal visit to the rejection of reminding a century and a half since colonization. However, mining is the new treasure chest for the region and people will do everything to secure mining lease contracts. The gold price has increased and only a few are incorruptible in front of his bait. In Old values (2016) Swanns left the bulls and survived in the 1980s and worked as a PI with a low rent. Someone annoys the prime minister of the Western Australia and Swann is asked who and why to find?

And finally (before returning to the Lee Southern series above for a Cameo appearance), Swann is again in the fourth and last book of his own tetralogy. Country vacation (2020) – It is 1989 and an American naval ship in Fremantle. Soon there will be problems in the brothels and concerns about a nuclear war in the city. The entire Frank Swann series is an effective story of modern Perth and Western Australia, which then goes into the Lee Southern series and brings us up to date, with hopefully more from Whish-Wilson.

The transformation of Perth and Western Australia through the mining boom is also shown by Dave Warner's City of light (2015-and also published by Frequent Press) brings us back to Perth today in the 1970s, Perth can feel like a good helpers, but calm city, but it was positive in the 1970s. Snowy Lane, who deals with a ham sandwich and the likelihood of doing the football team on Saturday, takes the terrible call that signals the beginning of a series of events that are supposed to shake in its life in his life. Warner is also the author of several books with Detective Inspector Daniel Clement and plays in and around Broome, a small town that is 1,271 miles from Perth (honestly, not so far in Western Australia concepts !!). The first, Before it breaks (2015) won the prestigious Australian Crime Writers Association 2016 Ned Kelly Award for the best crime novel (Kelly is the legendary Australian Bush Bush, Outlaw, gang leader and bank robber). On the edge of the desert, a man is found dead in a water hole affected by crocodile. And he is the first of several. The connection between the victims is difficult to grasp, but Clement has to follow it when a decades of the secret begins to unravel and a monster cyclone on the horizon.

After the flood (2022) sees di Dan Clement and his Broome police officers with a violent death by crucifixion near a remote northwest station, the theft of explosives from a Halls Creek location, protests on an abatoir and a slump in a children's clinic could they all be associated at some point? From Perth to Broome, Clement is perhaps the policeman in fiction, which covers the widest territory, whereby Western Australia is about as large as Western Europe! But with almost three million people. And finally, When it rains (2024) Dan Clement still captured on the Backwater Broome in the rainy rainy rain, with random body parts appearing in waters infected by crocodile.

The consolation of West -Oz mountain building cities is all over Robert Schofields Marble bar (2014), when a policeman decides to make a new beginning near the huge Mount Whaleback mines in the newman's iron mines. But when he returns home from the night shift and realizes that his roommate was murdered, the suspicion quickly falls on him. He conjures up his old ally from the gold team, DC Rose Kavanagh, and soon they are in the marble bar and are looking for gold.

Alan Carter Cato Kwong series is in and around Perth. Detective Philip “Cato” Kwong is a shameful policeman and an exposter boy for the police who is banished to a mining city on the edge of nowhere. In the first book of the series Prime Cut (2011) Kwong is sent to examine a murder in Antarctic as a punishment for his violation. But in the second bookWarmer (2014) He is back in Perth and on the trail of an unsolved secret of a missing fifteen -year -old girl who leads to the city's millionaires and night clubs. In the third book, Bad seed (2015), Cato, is sent to Shanghai on the trail of the murderer of a real estate developer. In Crocodile tears (2021) Kwong examines the death of a pensioner who is chopped into pieces in his suburb in Perth. The path leads to Timor-Leste with its recent blood-soaked history. And finally, Heaven sent (2023) notes that Cato is murdered in the case of a murderer that murdered the foreign lens. Overall, a funny series that jumps between Perth, Western Australia and a variety of other locations.

And finally a great debut novel by Jacqueline Wright – Red Dirt talks (2012), the history of a missing person against the background of the north-west industry “Big Wet” (The Heavy Rains season), was drawn into a closer election for the Miles Franklin Award in 2013 and is marketed as a literary crime. It plays ransom in the city, shortly before the “big wet” when traditionally tend to go out the rails. In the middle of a bitter custody battle, an eight -year -old girl is missing. Maggot, the local garbage collector, hears all crazy theories about what could have happened to her, while Annie, an anthropological graduate fresh from the city, is determined to uncover the secret of the child's disappearance. When Annie is looking for the truth under the wild speculation of the community, she increasingly attracted herself to Mick Hooper, a muscular, apparently relaxed guy with her own secrets. A novel that felt super fresh in 2012 and is still a unique original in Western Australia.