I don't read many crime fictions but this one recently won The Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing and I've been trying to find novels set in Canberra, this novel footed the bill perfectly and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Plenty of humour kept the story going and there was a conspiracy theory surrounding the Whitlam Dismissal that I didn't know anything about. The Canberra setting was believable and made Canberra seem alternatively gritty (in the civic carpark) and glamorous (in Cafe's in Manuka), definitely pure fiction :-)
I'm keen to find a copy of Robertson's earlier novel now. ( )

http://www.austcrimefiction.org/node/... ( )