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On Christmas Eve, 1943, the newly formed but undermanned Homicide division of the Melbourne police force is called to investigate the vicious double murder of a father and son. When Military Intelligence becomes involved, Homicide's Inspector Titus Lambert must unravel the personal from the political.
If only the killings had stopped at two. The police are desperate to come to grips with an extraordinary and disquieting upsurge of violence. For Constable Helen Lord, it is an opportunity to make her mark in a male-dominated world where she is patronised as a novelty. For Detective Joe Sable, the investigation forces a reassessment of his indifference to his Jewish heritage. Racing against the clock, the police uncover simmering tensions among secretive local Nazi sympathisers as a psychopathic fascist usurper makes his move.
The Holiday Murders explores a little-known and sometimes violent corner of Australian history, and finds oddly modern echoes in its paranoia, xenophobia, and ugly fervour.
- Sales Rank: #137835 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-01-22
- Released on: 2015-01-22
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 573 minutes
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Well enough written, but too gratuitously violent
By YarraGirl
I enjoyed the depiction of wartime Melbourne, and I liked the characters of the police officers. What I don't understand is why Gott needed to depict such gruesome crimes. I read crime novels for characterisation, but primarily for the mystery - who did it, why did they do it, will the protagonists catch them before they kill again? I don't like the suspicion that the author took delight in depicting murder in the most repellent and sickening way possible. When did writing murder mysteries become a contest for who has the most hideous crime? And why, if the action is flagging, did he need to throw in the old trope - sexual violence against women. The pornography of violence is all too common in 'hard-boiled' murder mysteries nowadays, and personally I don't like reading it. Now, Gott isn't graphic, but my imagination is all too able to fill in the gaps. Filling in the gaps was sickening. For that reason I lost interest half-way through and skimmed large parts of the novel. Hammett, Chandler, McDonald, Burke - really good mystery writers didn't need to use sickening violence to move the plot along. Gott's a good writer - he doesn't need to do so either.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
`Titus Lambert had never been fond of Christmas.'
By Jennifer Cameron-Smith
In Melbourne, on Christmas Eve in 1943, a young man and his father are found violently killed in their home. While the scene is staged as a murder and suicide, it doesn't take long for Inspector Titus Lambert to see realise that both men have been murdered. Inspector Lambert is a member of Melbourne's newly formed Homicide Division which is unfortunately undermanned as a consequence of the severe manpower shortage at this stage during World War II. Military Intelligence also becomes involved in the case - co-opting assistance from Inspector Lambert's offsider, Detective Joe Sable. With only part-time access to Detective Sable, Inspector Lambert calls on Constable Helen Lord to assist.
The novel is set between Christmas Eve 1943 and the early new year of 1944. Trying to solve the horrific murders of John and Xavier Quinn leads Lambert and his team through a Melbourne divided into wealthy and poor and into a dark space inhabited by anti-Semitism, racism, violence and hatred.
Aspects of this novel are factually based. A group known as the Australia First Movement (most active between 1936 to 1942), with its monthly magazine the Publicist, had moved beyond the literary figures it first attracted (including Xavier Herbert, Eleanor Dark and Miles Franklin) to Nazi sympathizers and vicious anti-Semitism.
As Joe Sable says:
`The Publicist costs sixpence. Sixpence. That was all you had to pay to be admitted into the realm of pure evil.' `The people who wrote this, and the people who read it, weren't thousands of miles away in Europe. They were here, in Melbourne.'
It's a sobering thought, and makes this a confronting read. I usually prefer my crime fiction with less of a basis in fact - it's more comfortable that way.
And within the brief period covered by this novel there are other murders and a number of violent acts. The tension increases as Lambert, Sable and Lord race against time to try to prevent more deaths. I found myself racing through this novel - both wanting to see justice done and wanting to learn more about the characters involved. There were a few twists and turns I didn't anticipate, and there's some history I want to explore.
`In the end, though, don't most investigations depend on the carelessness and stupidity of the perpetrators?'
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
When the trad publisher wins
By Amazon Customer
I heard a radio interview in which the author, having written a series of semi-humorous thrillers found this book, then in the same style, was returned by the publisher. Apparently the message was "take it seriously". The author did.
Here's the advantage of Kindle. I called up the book while the interview was still running and had it waiting for me and ready to read when the session was over!
I have since recommended it highly to my writing colleagues and also read star reviews in the dailies. For a non-Australian, even of my generation, the theme of the fascist Australia First movement, traitors during World War II, is probably unfamiliar, although it has attracted academic attention. Perhaps it's somewhat esoteric to a postwar generation (which is nearly everybody, now). But take it as a thriller, rather than a mystery, and it enthralls. There is no mystery in "who dunnit?" - just mounting horror and tension - but the denouement is a heart-stopping surprise. Read it and find out.
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