Classic crime fiction in the tradition of Elizabeth George, Nicci French, Barbara Vine and Minette Walters. Australian Women's Weekly Great Read selection. Detective Briony Williams is a rookie appointed to an all-male team investigating a bizarre murder at an anatomy college in Bloomsbury. Her superiors constantly make her feel left out. But a killer obsessed with following Jack the Ripper soon changes that. The killer is a practised anatomist with a theatrical streak. He arranges his victims bodies in cruel parodies of famous satirical engravings by Hogarth. As the summer and the swinging 60s wind to a terrible climax, this multi-layered thriller brings the startling and terrible strands of the story together. The Walker is an unforgettable crime debut that heralds a major new voice in Australian crime writing.
It's the swinging '60s and a Jack-the-Ripper wannabe is terrorizing London. Rookie detective Briony Williams is assigned to an all-male investigative team and feels she must prove herself. Narrator Nicki Paull is splendid in an array of situations--her voice perfectly conveys a drunk, a young girl, and someone speaking while holding pins in his mouth. There is a large number of international suspects and a contingent of police on the trail, each giving Paull's narrative skills a workout. Eventually, the story wends its way to California before the final showdown in England. Paull expertly keeps each distinctive character and suspenseful situation rolling along. S.G.B. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
Australian Women’s Weekly...
… a taut terrific thriller.
Australian Bookseller & Publisher...
… an original and suspenseful read … it deserves great success.
Woman's Day ...
This is real edge-of-the-seat stuff, deadly and dramatic.
Jane Goodall was born in England but now lives in Australia. She has held positions at several Australian Universities, teaching drama and performance, cultural history and history of science. She has been an invited speaker at many arts institutions including the National Gallery of Australia, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide, Artists Week at the Adelaide Festival, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Performance Space, Sydney. She currently teaches in Humanities at the University of Western Sydney and is Research Director for the College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences. The Walker is her debut novel.
