Murder, mystery and Melanesian realpolitik: Matt Francis's crime novels - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre
Crime fiction is abidingly popular. Five of the top ten books bought in Australia last week were mystery novels. Why is that so? Partly the reason is the obvious fun of working out a puzzle, but fans of the genre and literary critics often advance another reason: such books work as lenses to examine wider truths in a light-touch but revealing way. Matt Francis’s delightful Murder in the Pacific series of crime capers set in Vanuatu work at both …
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Murder, mystery and Melanesian realpolitik: Matt Francis's crime novels - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre
Crime fiction is abidingly popular. Five of the top ten books bought in Australia last week were mystery novels. Why is that so? Partly the reason is the obvious fun of working out a puzzle, but fans of the genre and literary critics often advance another reason: such books work as lenses to examine wider truths in a light-touch but revealing way. Matt Francis’s delightful Murder in the Pacific series of crime capers set in Vanuatu work at both …
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