The Diggers Rest Hotel

The Diggers Rest Hotel
Author Geoffrey McGeachin
Country Australia
Language English
Series Charlie Berlin
Genre Crime novel
Publisher Penguin, Australia
Publication date
2010
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 316
ISBN 9780670072736
Preceded by Dead and Kicking
Followed by Blackwattle Creek

The Diggers Rest Hotel (2010) is a crime novel by Australian author Geoffrey McGeachin. It is the first in the author's Charlie Berlin mystery series and won the 2011 Ned Kelly Award.

Plot summary

Charlie Berlin, a bomber pilot during WW II, rejoins the Melbourne police force after the war and in 1947 he is sent to Albury-Wodonga to investigate a series of violent robberies.

Reviews

Fair Dinkum Crime found the novel to build to be a winner and that the author "has taken care with the historical detail and it gives the novel a great feeling of authenticity".[1]

Awards and nominations

References

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