Blackwattle Creek

Blackwattle Creek (2012) is a crime novel by Australian author Geoffrey McGeachin. It is the second in the author's Charlie Berlin mystery series and won the 2013 Ned Kelly Award.

Not to be confused with Blackwattle Creek at Blackwattle Bay, Sydney.
Blackwattle Creek
AuthorGeoffrey McGeachin
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
SeriesCharlie Berlin
GenreCrime novel
PublisherViking Books, Australia
Publication date
2012
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages281
ISBN9780670075881
Preceded byThe Diggers Rest Hotel 
Followed bySt Kilda Blues 

Plot summary

Ten years after the events of the first book in the series, The Diggers Rest Hotel, Charlie Berlin is now married and living in Melbourne. His innocent investigations to strange goings-on at a funeral parlour for a friend, leads him to Blackwattle Creek, a former asylum for the criminally insane, to Cold War paranoia and corrupt policemen.

Reviews

Fair Dinkum Crime thought the novel to built to be a "ripper of a yarn" and that the author "has excelled at drawing out the small details of life that depict a time and place to perfection".[1] In The Guardian, Andrew Nette found a dark, "unsettling yarn" and was "genuinely interested to know where McGeachin is going to take Berlin next".[2]

Awards and nominations
  • 2013 winner Ned Kelly Award – Best Novel
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References
  1. "Review: Blackwattle Creek by Geoffrey McGeachin", Fair Dinkum Crime, 12 July 2012
  2. "Blackwattle Creek – a rereading of the Ned Kelly award winner 2013" by Andrew Nette, The Guardian, 10 September 2013
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