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The tribute / John Byron.

By: Series: Detective David Murphy. 1 | Byron, John. Detective David Murphy ; 1.Publication details: Mulgrave, VIC : Affirm Press, 2021.Description: 414 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781922419859 (paperback)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • A823.4 23
Summary: A serial killer is stalking through Sydney, hell-bent on recreating scenes from the Fabrica, the 16th-century foundation text of modern European anatomy. The spate of cold, methodical attacks has the city on edge, but the serial killer may not even be the darkest player in this story. Desperate for a breakthrough, decorated homicide detective David Murphy draws into the case his art historian sister, Joanna, and his wife, Sylvia. Unravelling the mystery of who is behind the killings pushes each beyond the limits of what they thought possible. The Tribute is a subversive take on modern masculinity and misogyny told through an irresistible crime narrative. Dark and unpredictable, chilling but sympathetic, it weaves a tapestry of narrative threads towards a mesmerising climax that will challenge the way you think about everyone you meet.
List(s) this item appears in: Australian Crime Fiction | 1st in Series - Crime Fiction
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Book Melbourne Athenaeum Library Fiction - Crime BYR Murphy Bk.1 Available 063483
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"Evil can take many forms"--Cover.

A serial killer is stalking through Sydney, hell-bent on recreating scenes from the Fabrica, the 16th-century foundation text of modern European anatomy. The spate of cold, methodical attacks has the city on edge, but the serial killer may not even be the darkest player in this story. Desperate for a breakthrough, decorated homicide detective David Murphy draws into the case his art historian sister, Joanna, and his wife, Sylvia. Unravelling the mystery of who is behind the killings pushes each beyond the limits of what they thought possible. The Tribute is a subversive take on modern masculinity and misogyny told through an irresistible crime narrative. Dark and unpredictable, chilling but sympathetic, it weaves a tapestry of narrative threads towards a mesmerising climax that will challenge the way you think about everyone you meet.

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