Highway 13

A$25 · Offered by Harry Hartog Rare Books

WINNER - 2025 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction WINNER - 2025 NSW Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction WINNER - 2025 ALS Gold Medal WINNER - 2025 Voss Literary Prize WINNER - 2025 Story Prize SHORTLISTED - 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award SHORTLISTED - 2025 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction SHORTLISTED - 2025 Australian Book Industry Award for Literary Fiction Book of the Year SHORTLISTED - 2025 Age Book of the Year Fiction Award SHORTLISTED - 2025 Danger Award for Crime Fiction SHORTLISTED - 2025 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction HIGHLY COMMENDED - 2025 Davitt Award for Adult Fiction A gripping, haunting work about the reverberations of a serial killer's crimes in the lives of everyday people. In 1998, an apparently ordinary Australian man is arrested and charged with a series of brutal murders of backpackers along a highway. The news shocks the nation, bringing both horror and resolution to the victims' families, but its impact travels even further - into the past, as the murders rewrite personal histories, and into the future, as true crime podcasts and biopics tell the story of the crimes. Highway 13 takes murder as its starting point, but it unfolds to encompass much more: through the investigation of the aftermath of this violence across time and place, from the killer's home town in country Australia to the tropical Far North, and to Texas and Rome, McFarlane presents an unforgettable, entrancing exploration of the way stories

• Binding: Hardcover

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