Harry Curry: The Murder Book (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Ugly. Irascible. Intolerant. Clever. — these four words announce Harry Curry, the magnificently flawed protagonist at the centre of Stuart Littlemore's razor-sharp crime novel Harry Curry: The Murder Book, a story set against the gritty, morally ambiguous backstreets of Australian civic life. Curry is no conventional detective; he is a bruising, brilliant operator who cuts through the pretensions of polite society with the bluntness of a man who has seen too much, cared too little, and survived precisely because of it. When a murder lands in his orbit, Curry is pulled into a labyrinthine investigation that tests not only his intellect but the limits of his already threadbare patience. Littlemore — a celebrated Australian barrister and longtime host of the ABC's Media Watch — brings an insider's eye to the machinery of justice, power, and institutional failure, lending the narrative an authenticity that few crime writers can match. His prose is whip-smart and unflinching, earning praise from The Age for its acutely observed fiction, and the book carries the quiet menace of a courtroom where everyone is lying and only one person knows it. For readers who hunger for crime fiction that is as intellectually provocative as it is compulsively readable, Harry Curry is a character who refuses to be forgotten.
Author: Stuart Littlemore
Format: Paperback
Published: 2012, HarperCollins Publishers
Genre: Crime fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Ugly. Irascible. Intolerant. Clever. — these four words announce Harry Curry, the magnificently flawed protagonist at the centre of Stuart Littlemore's razor-sharp crime novel Harry Curry: The Murder Book, a story set against the gritty, morally ambiguous backstreets of Australian civic life. Curry is no conventional detective; he is a bruising, brilliant operator who cuts through the pretensions of polite society with the bluntness of a man who has seen too much, cared too little, and survived precisely because of it. When a murder lands in his orbit, Curry is pulled into a labyrinthine investigation that tests not only his intellect but the limits of his already threadbare patience. Littlemore — a celebrated Australian barrister and longtime host of the ABC's Media Watch — brings an insider's eye to the machinery of justice, power, and institutional failure, lending the narrative an authenticity that few crime writers can match. His prose is whip-smart and unflinching, earning praise from The Age for its acutely observed fiction, and the book carries the quiet menace of a courtroom where everyone is lying and only one person knows it. For readers who hunger for crime fiction that is as intellectually provocative as it is compulsively readable, Harry Curry is a character who refuses to be forgotten.