Caleb gets there too late though: Gary, a happily married father of three and a police officer, has been savagely tortured and murdered.
In the novel’s harrowing first chapter, Caleb is the first to arrive at his best friend’s Gary’s house, after Gary sent him a text desperately pleading for help. Yet he still occasionally needs to take cover behind the protective barriers he has erected around his disability since his youth. In his early thirties, he lives a full life, runs a private investigation business with a partner and was married seven years to beautiful Kat.
He is a fighter, but also a man who’s painfully aware of his handicap. And, crucially, she is not afraid of revealing both the depths down which they can be dragged by their weakness, and the heights to which they can climb.Ĭaleb Zelic was left with seriously impaired hearing after contracting meningitis at the age of five, when he moved with his family to Melbourne, Australia. Viskic pens an unflinching yet compassionate portrayal of human vulnerability, creating characters that are all to some extent flawed, in mind if not in body. For example, how we cope with, and relate to, physical disability, not to mention racism, sexism and addiction to alcohol or drugs. Gutsy, original and with a devilishly tricky plot: ‘Resurrection Bay’, the debut novel crime novel by Australian author Emma Viskic, has a lot going for it, enough in fact to be a hit as soon as it was published in Australia, where it won the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut, as well as an unprecedented three Davitt Awards: Best Adult Novel, Best Debut and Readers’ Choice.Ī novel that pulls no punches, as Viskic doesn’t shy away from tackling issues that, in theory at least, are beyond the customary remit of genre fiction.
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