Truth

Inspector Stephen Villani, newly in charge of the Victoria Police homicide squad, is called to a luxury apartment where a young woman has died in a glass bath, an alarm button close to her hand. Soon after, three tortured bodies turn up in a garage, and both cases lead towards the powerful: developers, politicians and Villani's own superiors, who scheme as fires creep across the state. Villani has always lived for his work, but his marriage is failing, his teenage daughter has fallen in with dealers and his father lives in the path of the fires. Told through fragments of dialogue and memory, the story follows a man whose certainties give way over a few days.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

Australia

First published

2009

Author's age

63 when first published

ISBN

9781921520716 (Text Publishing, Australia)

9781849161534 (Quercus, United Kingdom)

9780374279370 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)

9781921656620 (Text Publishing, Australia)

9780312572907 (Picador, United States)

9781847243836 (Quercus, United Kingdom)

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