Australia’s ‘quarry noir’ mines our anxiety about our biggest industry
- Written by Meg Brayshaw, John Rowe Lecturer in Australian Literature, University of Sydney
A geologist is bludgeoned to death with his own hammer. An opal prospector is murdered, his body found crucified down a mine shaft. An entire family disappears, apparently dragged down into the mined-out spaces below an abandoned gold rush town. These are just some of the crimes in a growing body of contemporary Australian crime fiction that...
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