Little Sister by Julian Novitz review

By Sam Finnemore In Books

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26th May, 2012
Melbourne-based New Zealander Julian Novitz’s second novel hits the ground running, scrambling through the bush away from a house that’s now a murder scene, on a late night in early September 2001. The runner is panicked and wired 18-year-old Shane, and as he pauses to rest he gradually puts the picture together for us: there’s his girlfriend’s father, Dr Mantel, slumped in his study; there’s the samurai sword that Shane swung in an uncontrolled moment; and there’s the still-unanswered question that first brought him to the Mantel residence, weapon in hand: the whereabouts of girlfriend ...

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