Author:
Maryrose Cuskelly
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A true tale of blood and dust
Narrator
Maryrose Cuskelly
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Length
7 hours 23 minutes
Language
English
'The slaughter was extravagant and bloody. And yet there were people in the small town of Wedderburn in Central Victoria who, while they did not exactly rejoice, quietly thought that Ian Jamieson had done them all a favour.'
One fine Wednesday evening in October 2014, 65-year-old Ian Jamieson secured a hunting knife in a sheath to his belt and climbed through the wire fence separating his property from that of his much younger neighbour Greg Holmes. Less than 30 minutes later, Holmes was dead, stabbed more than 25 times. Jamieson returned home and took two shotguns from his gun safe. He walked across the road and shot Holmes's mother, Mary Lockhart, and her husband, Peter, multiple times before calling the police.
In this compelling book, Maryrose Cuskelly gets to the core of this small Australian town and the people within it. Much like the successful podcast S-Town, things aren't always as they seem: Wedderburn begins with an outwardly simple murder but expands to probe the dark secrets that fester within small towns, asking: is murder something that lives next door to us all?
Maryrose Cuskelly is a writer of fiction and non-fiction. She is the bestselling author of The Cane, shortlisted in the Best Debut category in the 2023 Davitt Awards. In 2019, Cuskelly's non-fiction book Wedderburn: A True Tale of Blood and Dust, was longlisted for Best Debut and Best True Crime in the 2019 Davitt Awards, and in 2016 she was awarded the New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing (non-fiction) for her essay on the 1972 abduction and murder of Marilyn Wallman. Cuskelly is also the author of Original Skin: Exploring the Marvels of the Human Hide and The End of Charity: Time for Social Enterprise, co-written with Nic Frances and winner of the Iremonger Award for Writing on Public Issues. Her latest novel is The Campers, due out in 2025.
Maryrose Cuskelly is a writer of fiction and non-fiction. She is the bestselling author of The Cane, shortlisted in the Best Debut category in the 2023 Davitt Awards. In 2019, Cuskelly's non-fiction book Wedderburn: A True Tale of Blood and Dust, was longlisted for Best Debut and Best True Crime in the 2019 Davitt Awards, and in 2016 she was awarded the New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing (non-fiction) for her essay on the 1972 abduction and murder of Marilyn Wallman. Cuskelly is also the author of Original Skin: Exploring the Marvels of the Human Hide and The End of Charity: Time for Social Enterprise, co-written with Nic Frances and winner of the Iremonger Award for Writing on Public Issues. Her latest novel is The Campers, due out in 2025.
Audiobook details
Narrator:
Maryrose Cuskelly
ISBN:
9781489496959
Length:
7 hours 23 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Publication date:
April 1, 2019
Edition:
Unabridged
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