Leah Giarratano - Voodoo Doll

Praise for Voodoo Doll

'Clinical psychologist turned thriller writer Leah Giarratano brings a wealth of professional experience to her art... a page-turner, note-worthy for its expert characterisation and often chilling psychological veracity.'

The Age

'Voodoo Doll is more chiller than thriller. It's cleverly plotted and crackles along at an electric pace. I'm sure Giarratano has a growing fan base and it's great to see local talent getting an outing.'

Good Reading

'This is a seriously good read. Giarratano is taking on the big guns, and winning.'

MX Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney

'I suspect a series. Bring it on.'

Sue Turnbull, Sydney Morning Herald

'Voodoo Doll is the follow-up novel to the best-selling debut, Vodka Doesn't Freeze, and it's an absolute cracker... So lock all your doors, snuggle up under your doona and get ready for a thriller that you won't be able to put down.'

Newcastle Herald

'Plumbing the depths of her experience... Giarratano's writing has an air of authenticity missing from the work of her peers. Creepy, nasty and oddly compelling, it's definitely not light reading.'

GQ Australia

Praise for Vodka Doesn't Freeze

'There's a true-crime relentlessness about Vodka Doesn't Freeze that suggests it's been written from the heart by someone who really cares deeply about child abuse.'

Sue Turnbull, Sydney Morning Herald

'Giarratano writes with a style that immediately grabs and holds your attention, diving unerringly to the heart of each scene and describing it in full, no-nonsense detail. Her characters are filled with flaws that beg to be examined more closely and she satisfies this need, laying bare the good and the bad in equal measure.'

www.crimedownunder.com

'Particularly nasty crime fiction that threatens to keep you awake at night can always be dismissed with that hoary old chestnut "It's only make-believe"... No such comfort with a debut book by Leah Giarratano.'

Lucy Clark, Sunday Telegraph

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Voodoo Doll

ePub ISBN 9781864715408
Kindle ISBN 9781864718041

Voodoo Doll, although inspired by real Australian crimes, is a work of fiction. All the characters in this book are fictitious and any resemblance to any actual person, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

A Bantam book
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First published in Australia and New Zealand by Bantam in 2008
This edition published by Bantam in 2009

Copyright Leah Giarratano 2008

The moral right of the author has been asserted.

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National Library of Australia
Cataloguing-in-Publication Entry

Giarratano, Leah.
Voodoo doll.

ISBN: 9781863255899

A823.4

Cover illustration by Superstock
Cover design by blacksheep-uk.com
Typeset by Midland Typesetters, Australia
Printed and bound by Griffin Press, South Australia

For Joshua and the rabbit:
we forever run together through
every page of this book.

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'... in a real dark night of the soul, it is always
three o'clock in the morning...'

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up