For the Crime Stack in September, Fremantle Press is generously donating twenty copies of Gone Guru, the debut novel by Nadine Browne.
Noni Barlow is broke, jet-lagged and alone in New York with nothing but a dream and a manuscript. When her idol Joyce Carol Oates tells her that Born Again memoirs are so ‘last year’, Noni’s big break starts to feel like a big mistake.
To add to the general weirdness, she meets her new flatmate only once before he vanishes into thin air – and that’s even before Noni discovers he is a transcendental meditation guru with a massive following, and a million-dollar trust fund.
Aided by an octogenarian social worker, and the sarcastic daughter of her landlady, Noni finds herself deep in the case of the disappearing guru. Is this the new plot line she needs to save her writing career?
Nadine Browne is a prose writer, poet and essayist. She received an MFA in fiction at New York University, where she was a Starworks Fellow. Her work has been featured in Overland, The Massachusetts Review and ABC Australia. She is the author of the short story collection The Whip Hand, with Michaela Nicolescu.
Crime Stack is a reward for signed-up members of Sisters in Crime.
Join now and be in the running for a complimentary paperback copy of Gone Guru.
UQP will be sending last month’s winners a copy of Helidonby Nikki Mottram: Alison Booth (ACT); Robin Bowles(VIC); Lorraine Browitt (VIC); Elizabeth Creed (VIC); IlsaEvans (VIC); Marie Hanson (WA); Kath Harper (VIC); Janine Healey (TAS); Carol Joyce (VIC); Athena Law(QLD); Hannah Malewska (VIC); Thomas Penrose(NSW);BarbieRobinson (ACT); Georgina Rychner(VIC); Dorothy Shorne (SA); Stacy Smith (NSW); JulietteWard (VIC); Anna Weatherly (ACT); Carol Woeltjes (VIC); and Helene Young (QLD).