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Book review: The Lost Girls and Beams Falling

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Beams Falling by PM Newton

Bookshops are flooded with crime fiction from England, Scotland, Scandinavia and the US, but we have our own home grown fair and today we’re reviewing two new Australian crime novels.

The Lost Girls is Wendy James’ fifth novel. It’s about the murders of two teenage girls in the late 1970s and the ripple effect of the deaths on their loved ones over 20 years later.

The other book we’re looking at is Beams Falling, the second novel by author PM Newton following on from her debut The Old School which introduced us to Detective Nhu ‘Ned’ Kelly. It has a distinctly Asian Australian feel to it and is set in Sydney's Cabramatta.

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Crime Fiction, Critique and Theory