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All These Perfect Strangers

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The truth is never black and white

'This is about three deaths. Actually more, if you go back far enough. I say deaths but perhaps all of them were murders. It's a grey area. Murder, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. So let's just call them deaths and say I was involved. This story could be told a hundred different ways.'

University life is full of perfect strangers, charismatic academics and instant best friends. Pen Sheppard fits in by reinventing herself and wiping away her past, never thinking that others might be doing the same thing. But keeping secrets can become obsessive and betrayal deadly. Within six months three students are dead. Should Pen remain silent? Or will she be compelled to talk, to excuse, to explain ... or perhaps confess?
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    • Books+Publishing

      January 25, 2016
      Pen Sheppard is recovering at her rural family home after an assault she won’t discuss with anyone, let alone her psychologist. As she prowls the house, avoiding everyone inside and outside its walls, she relives the exhilaration, fear and tedium of her time at university before the attacks cut it short. At first university seems like a chance at freedom, an escape from the town that kept her criminal past current news. But campus life—where friends share rooms and no-one needs to leave the grounds—only narrows her world further. And when the violence starts, the threads of Pen’s past troubles start to tighten around her again. The more Pen reveals, the less clear it becomes whether she is innocent, guilty, or simply unable to discover the truth. This is a brilliantly claustrophobic take on the unreliable narrator story, with an engaging mystery that unravels as the central character does. Debut author Aoife Clifford transports readers back to the late-eighties and early-nineties with her skilful use of dialogue and prose, never resorting to Bon Jovi or shoulder pad references; here, Australian small-town suspense meets a moment of youth sorely underrepresented in crime writing. Fiona Hardy is a bookseller at Readings Carlton and secretary of the Australian Crime Writers Association

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