Larrimah by Caroline Graham & Kylie Stevenson

LARRIMAH: hot, barren, a speck of dust in the centre of the nothingness of
outback Australia. Where you might find a death adder in the bar and a spider
or ten in the toaster. Maybe it's stupid, to write a love letter to a town that 
looks like this, especially when it's someone else's town. A town where there's
nothing to see, nothing to buy and the closest thing to an attraction is a weird
Pink Panther in a gyrocopter whose head falls off intermittently. A town 
steeped in ancient superstition and pockmarked with sinkholes. It's Kadaitja
Country. 
People go missing in the bush there, the traditional owners say.

It's doubly stupid to write a love letter to a town where someone did go
missing and one of the remaining residents might be a murderer. A town
at the centre of one of the biggest mysteries outback Australia has ever
seen--a weird, swirling whodunnit about camel pies and wild donkeys
and drug deals and crocodiles, a case that's had police scratching their
heads for years, while journalists and filmmakers and Hollywood turn
up, from time to time, to ask what the hell happened here.

And it makes no sense to fall for a place when the town is crumbling
into the dust and it looks a lot like your love letter might end up being
a eulogy. But whatever happened in Larrimah, it's strange and precious
and surprisingly funny. Journalists Kylie Stevenson and Caroline Graham
have spent years trying to pin it down--what happened to Paddy
Moriarty and his dog, how they disappeared, how they might take
the whole town and something even bigger with them.

Genres: Nonfiction - Australia - True Crime - Humour - History
Condition: Good
Published: 2021 by Allen & Unwin
Pages: 380
ISBN: 9781760877835
Weight: 485g