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Fiction

Promise by Tony Cavanaugh

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July–August 2012, no. 343

Promise by Tony Cavanaugh

Hachette Australia, $29.99 pb, 327 pp, 9780733628474

Fiction

Promise by Tony Cavanaugh

by •
July–August 2012, no. 343

Promise is set on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, although it might as well be Siberia so far as any claims to historical or social verisimilitude are concerned. Just about every stereotype ever devised in the name of crime fiction has been assembled here, resulting in a story so over the top as to stretch credulity beyond breaking point.

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Dean Biron

Dean Biron teaches in the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology and the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University. Hewas co-winner of the 2011 Calibre Essay Prize.

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