{"product_id":"9781486212682","title":"St. Kilda Blues","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's 1967, the summer of love, and in swinging Melbourne Detective Sergeant Charlie Berlin has been hauled out of exile in the Fraud Squad to investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl, the daughter of a powerful and politically connected property developer. As Berlin's inquiries uncover more missing girls he gets an uneasy feeling he may be dealing with the city's first serial killer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBerlin's investigation leads him through inner-city discothèques, hip photographic studios, the emerging drug culture and into the seedy back streets of St Kilda. The investigation also brings up ghosts of Berlin's past as a bomber pilot and POW in Europe and disturbing memories of the casual murder of a young woman he witnessed on a snow-covered road in Poland in the war's dying days. As in war, some victories come at a terrible cost and Berlin will have to face an awful truth and endure an unimaginable loss before his investigation is over.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSt Kilda Blues\u003c\/i\u003e is Geoffrey McGeachin's seventh book and third in the Charlie Berlin series. The first Berlin novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Diggers Rest Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2011 Australian Crime Writers Association's Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction with the follow up book, \u003ci\u003eBlackwattle Creek\u003c\/i\u003e, also winning the Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction in 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bolinda Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060427374832,"sku":"9781486212682","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781486212682_p0.jpg?v=1763633999","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781486212682","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}