THE GREAT DIVIDE
Twisted Secrets. Hidden Victims. Monstrous Crimes.
A city detective hunts a killer through a fog of lies in small town Tasmania.
In the rural Tasmanian town of Dunton the body of a former headmistress of a children's home is discovered, revealing a tortured life and death.
Detective Jake Hunter, newly-arrived, searches for her killer among past residents of the home. He unearths pain, secrets and broken adults. Pushing aside memories of his own treacherous past, Jake focuses all his energy on the investigation.
Why are some of the children untraceable? What caused such damage among the survivors?
The identity of the murderer seems hidden from Jake by Dunton's fog of prejudice and lies, until he is forced to confront not only the town's history but his own nature...
The Great Divide is a new, darker tale from the author of the popular Dr Pimms, Intermillennial Sleuth mysteries: Olmec Obituary (2015), Mayan Mendacity (2016), and Egyptian Enigma (2018).
This is gripping, atmospheric, rural Australian crime fiction at its best. For fans of Jane Harper, Val McDermid, Alan Carter, Candice Fox, Dervla McTiernan and Emma Viskic.
Listen to Marta Dusseldorp Launch The Great Divide
The Great Divide was launched at the Terror Australis Readers and Writers Festival ‘TAF2019 Murder She Wrote’ by Marta Dusseldorp in November 2019 in Cygnet, Tasmania
Please hit ‘Play’ above to listen to the launch recorded and transformed into a podcast by the festival’s podcast partner, Living Arts Canberra.
'Australian rural crime at its most atmospheric...The Great Divide is compulsive reading’—BOOKS+PUBLISHING
‘Chilling, masterful…works its way into your bones and lingers long after the book is closed’ —SULARI GENTILL
‘This is an excellently well-written whodunit, which will leave you guessing all the way through. The Great Divide is a total page turner, engrossing you from the very first page to the last.’ —BETTER READING
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Great Divide explores the lingering impacts of being deemed ‘less than’ by one’s own community, reflecting the silent anguish of many.
L.J. drew on her own childhood in small town Australia to explore the shared experiences of children becoming adults in a world that has cast them aside.
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Australia - Signed Paperbacks
Signed copies of The Great Divide are available direct from L.J. Please email ljmowen.tarwf @ gmail.com. Paperback $33.
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