The White Tower

Dorothy Johnston

PB 225 PP 215 x 145 1862546053 $22.95 APN 9781862546059 Crime Fiction Wakefield Press

‘If you combined the two strands of Ruth Rendell and her alter writing ego, Barbara Vine, you’d come close to Dorothy Johnston’s talent.’ – Ken Bruen, author of The Guards

‘Jumpers,’ McCallum was saying. ‘Jumpers are – well, in my experience jumpers are always badly disturbed. They choose to jump because it’s so violent.’

Niall Howley has been spending night after night playing an interactive computer game when he’s found dead at the bottom of the Telstra tower in Canberra. From a graphic left on his computer, it is apparent that his actual death mimics in an eerie way the death already scripted for him in the game. The police and the coroner call it suicide, but Niall’s mother hires Sandra Mahoney, computer crime consultant, to help her understand what has really happened.

This is the second book in Dorothy Johnston’s crime trilogy following The Trojan Dog, which was joint winner of the 2001 ACT Book of the Year and won the Age Best of 2000 in the Crime section. Johnston’s One For The Master (Wakefield Press 1997) and Ruth (1986) were short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award.

By the same author:

Eden

The House at Number 10

One for the Master

The Trojan Dog

‘Her work is deceptively simple but laced with enough acute observation to keep you from getting too comfortable. Her intelligence seeps into your consciousness.’ – Canberra Times

‘Here is the big major talent that publishers tell us no longer exists.’ – Ken Bruen, internationally acclaimed, Irish crime novelist

‘This is an artfully seductive crime story.’ – Sue Turnbull, Age

‘More please!’ – Katharine England, Advertiser

‘Taut like a wire strung across the road The White Tower by Dorothy Johnston grabs hold of you on the first page and doesn't want to let go.’ – Paul Mills, Memorable TV.