Guest review and giveaway of Judy Moody, Super Boo.Review: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert.Review: And Fire Came Down by Emma Viskic.Winners of Judy Moody, Super Book Whiz by Megan Mc.Review: I’ll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara.Review: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions.Review: The River Home by Hannah Richell.Review: Shark Arm by Phillip Roope & Kevin Meagher.Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic is highly recommended for crime fiction fans. I've already read the next in the series - And Fire Came Down - which I believe is better than this one, which has directly informed my rating below. There's plenty of action, tension and diversity as well as Aussie references and recognisable settings in this debut. I found myself invested in Caleb way more than the plot, and knew early on this was a series I would continue reading. I can't recall a character like him in crime fiction, perhaps with the exception of John Stefanovitch a New York cop confined to a wheelchair after being shot and left for dead in the 1989 novel The Midnight Club by James Patterson. And Fire Came Down (Echo Publishing) is the sequel to Emma Viskics Ned Kelly Award-winning thriller Resurrection Bay. Caleb's deafness is very much part of who he is and reading about him and the danger he soon finds himself in really helped me to understand the challenges those hard of hearing inevitably face every day. Caleb is an investigator and runs his business with an ex-cop by the name of Frankie.Ĭaleb is such a fresh and unique character I immediately warmed to him. Winning a bunch of awards, Resurrection Bay is the first in the series featuring Caleb Zelic.Ĭaleb has been deaf since childhood and has learned to adapt by lip reading, closely observing his surroundings and by actively interpreting other key signs and signals. Emma Viskic burst onto the Australian crime writing scene back in 2015 and I'm just catching up now.

Resurrection bay by emma viskic