Affirm Press, now an imprint of Simon & Schuster, is generously donating twenty copies Neighbourhood Watch by Lauren Williams for the Crime Stack for July.
Time for Australian crime to come in from the wilderness – the best new novel is set in the suburbs, where the secrets are bigger, and everyone’s watching.
The annual Curlew Street scarecrow competition is back, and the residents of Melbourne’s inner north have never seen an entry like it. Shirt bloody, head and arms slumped over a scarecrow crucifix: Victoria’s most conservative Supreme Court Judge, Harry ‘The Pope’ Somerton, is dead.
Priyanka Pal, a former psychologist turned homicide detective, is disturbed when her investigation uncovers corruption close to home. Forced to confront the abuses of powerful men – the very reason she left psychology – Priyanka’s faith in the justice system falters . . .
Before turning to fiction, Lauren worked as a lawyer, diplomat, actor, arts journalist, and museum communications manager (not all at once). This is her first novel.
Join now and be in the running for a complimentary paperback copy of Neighbourhood Watch. Penguin Random House will be sending last month’s winners a copy of Possible Springs by Samantha Ross: