The Pit, Peter Papathanasiou
The Pit, Peter Papathanasiou
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The Pit
By the author of THE STONING, "The crime debut of the year"

Author: Peter Papathanasiou

Narrator: Nicholas Osmond

Unabridged: 9 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/17/2023


Synopsis

A third outback noir from Peter Papathanasiou, following Special Constable Sparrow as he investigates a cold case in a barren mining region of Western Australia.

With DS Manolis on leave in Greece, Senior Constable Sparrow receives a phone call from a man who wants to turn himself in.

Bob is sixty years old, confined to a Perth nursing home. But thirty years ago, he killed a man in the remote northern Kimberley mining region. He offers to show Sparrow where the body is, but there's a catch: Sparrow must travel north with him under the guise of being his carer.

They are accompanied on the drive by another nursing home resident: Luke, thirty years old, paralysed in a motorbike accident. As they embark on their road trip through the guts of Western Australia, pursued by outback police and adrenaline-soaked miners, Sparrow beings to suspect that Bob's desire to head north may have sinister motivations. Is Luke being held against his will? And what lies in store for them when they reach the pit?

(P) 2023 Quercus Editions Limited

About Peter Papathanasiou

Peter Papathanasiou was born in northern Greece and adopted as a baby to an Australian family. His writing has been published internationally by The New York Times, Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Canberra Times, Daily Telegraph, The ABC, SBS, Huffington Post. He also holds an MA in Creative Writing from City University, London, and a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the Australian National University. His first book, a memoir Son of Mine was published in 2019 by Salt.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sheri on May 16, 2025

Wow. This was a well written book describing the twisted mind and life of Gary Heidnik. He thought he had everything all planned out and took women to fulfill his desire for children. He was mean and violent with no regard for the people he captured. He still held church services weekly in his home......more


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Peter Papathanasiou is a rising star of crime fiction . . . Half crime novel, half social history, The Pit shows the versatility of the genre in the hands of a gifted writer Sunday Times

Darkly immersive Aussie Noir at its very best Irish Independent

Peter Papathanasiou has a voice like no one else writing Australian crime fiction and delivers another larger-than-life, take-no-prisoners slice of outback noir. A truly original writer. author of NO COUNTRY FOR GIRLS, winner of the 2023 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize