In a genre full of tropes, authors are able to push the mould and bring marginalised characters to the fore to create a truer picture of life in the outback
‘Rural crime fiction is flourishing in the hands of several champions of diversity, including Dinuka McKenzie, RWR McDonald and Hayley Scrivener.’‘Rural crime fiction is flourishing in the hands of several champions of diversity, including Dinuka McKenzie, RWR McDonald and Hayley Scrivener.’flat, dry landscape stretches beyond a cow skull staring up from the cracked mud, as the rusted tin blades on a disused windmill scrape around in the hot air.
Mainstream Indigenous crime writing is rare but it feels like it shouldn’t be, because Aunty June has more at stake than Miss Marple and DCI Vera Stanhope combined. “As the child of migrants and grandchild of refugees, the treatment of ‘new arrivals’ is a topic close to my heart,” Writing gurus advise against trying to chase genre “storms” for this very reason, although, like Janson, I never set out to write a crime novel. My story had taken years of research and exploration to captureBut all I had to do was wait, because there are independent publishers, like those who published Janson and Papathanasiou, with one eye out for diverse voices in classic rural noir storytelling.
So Janson created Thommo, Aunty June’s nephew, who disappears as Madukka opens and returns to her in a prescient vision of his murder.
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