Blackwattle Creek
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| Author | Geoffrey McGeachin |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Charlie Berlin |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | Viking Books, Australia |
Publication date | 2012 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 281 |
| ISBN | 9780670075881 |
| Preceded by | The Diggers Rest Hotel |
| Followed by | St Kilda Blues |
Blackwattle Creek (2012) is a crime novel by Australian author Geoffrey McGeachin. It is the second in the author's Charlie Berlin mystery series and won the 2013 Ned Kelly Award.[1]
Ten years after the events of the first book in the series, The Diggers Rest Hotel, Charlie Berlin is now married and living in Melbourne. His innocent investigations to strange goings-on at a funeral parlour for a friend, leads him to Blackwattle Creek, a former asylum for the criminally insane, to Cold War paranoia and corrupt policemen.