{"product_id":"good-murder","title":"Good Murder","description":"It's 1942, and war is raging in Europe and in the Pacific.  The Japanese army is on Australia's doorstep, and the small coastal  Queensland town of Maryborough is on full war footing. What they are not  prepared for is the arrival in the town of a troupe of incompetent  actors whose unjustifiably self-confident leader, William Power, is  determined to bring his daring production of Titus Andronicus to the  barbarians of rural Australia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Unfortunately for the Power Players, the  only gift William Power has is a capacity for being in the wrong place  at the wrong time. When a young woman goes missing and is found floating  dead in the town's water supply, Power becomes the prime suspect in her  murder. With every misplaced step he takes, he becomes more and more  embroiled in a series of crimes which baffle the police and horrify the  locals. Having no confidence in the constabulary, Power decides that his  only option is to solve the crimes himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e His acting skills are not  good; his detection skills are worse. As he stumbles towards a solution  and as his injuries mount up, he never wavers in his belief that he  alone can bring the killer to justice. But, with every day that passes,  he tightens the noose around his own neck until, on the night of a  violent storm, everything changes. And not for the better.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The storyline and characterisation make this a highly original piece of crime fiction ... What I liked most about \u003ci\u003eGood Murder\u003c\/i\u003e was its language and humour ... the dialogue is funny and pithy.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Ed Wright, \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Elegantly rendered in a kind of high literary pastiche, \u003ci\u003eGood Murder\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant debut.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Graeme Blundell, \u003ci\u003eWeekend Australian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eGood Murder\u003c\/i\u003e is an absolutely hilarious read ... Gott's stellar accomplishment is his ability to sustain the tragically absurd voice of narrator Will Power ... The results are brilliantly achieved and really really very funny ... The author worked previously as a cartoonist, and that fine mental eye for caricature, humour and social observation shine through in this work that we can only hope is the first of many Will Power's adventures.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Warren Hately, \u003ci\u003eFremantle Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Robert Gott","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516767699005,"sku":null,"price":31.34,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781925321081.jpg?v=1787572463","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/good-murder","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}