The Australian settings both in Melbourne and in Resurrection Bay are nicely described. Caleb and his partner Frankie get some of the best lines and they are frequently laugh aloud funny. A deaf main character - wow! Emma Viskic does an excellent job of showing the effect this handicap has on Caleb's day to day life, his responses to others and their attitudes towards him.Īll of the characters are well written and there is plenty of humour along the way. What is unusual is that he is deaf and has been so since he contracted meningitis as a child. No wonder the author won prizes for this.Ĭaleb Zelic works as a kind of private investigator which is not unusual in a crime story. I would use superlatives such as exciting, funny, original and deftly plotted without reservation in describing this remarkable debut novel. The author has created a wonderfully intriguing protagonist in Caleb, for besides his great sense of humor, she provides the reader insights into just how difficult the profoundly deaf struggle in society using the protagonist as the foil. The bad guys appear to have no moral compass whatsoever while the plot is original and the narrative peppered with observational humor taken from Caleb’s surreal take upon life. This is a really exciting, fast paced investigation and an extremely dangerous one too. Caleb enlists the help of his friend Frankie, but ex-cop Frankie has some major issues to deal with herself. The only clue he has is the name 'Scott', which Gary texted immediately before he was murdered. When Caleb's childhood friend, Senior Constable Gary Marsden is murdered, he's determined to discover the identity of the perpetrator especially as he is among the list of suspects. Our protagonist uses lip reading, examination of facial expressions and small movements of body language (discernible by him alone) as just a few of the techniques he deploys to understand the world around him. * Thank you to for a paper copy of Resurrection Bay for which I have given an honest review*Īfter reading this excellent debut novel, I assert that Australian author Emma Viskic is certainly a name to watch out for in the crime genre.Ĭaleb Zelic hasn't found life easy profoundly deaf since he was a young boy he's had to work exceptionally hard just to fit in.
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