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Australian Scholarly Publishing. This edition published
2005
Reviewed by Sunnie Gill
Detective Constable Rubens McCauley is on the outs with the powers that
be. A former member of the disbanded and discredited drugs squad, McCauley
has done things in the past he’s not proud of. Now he’s in the frame for
the murder of a gangland figure who murdered a police officer and got away
with it. Mcauley had been drinking heavily and telling anyone who would
listen how he was going to get even with Louis Varilla. Now Varilla has
been found shot dead in St. Kilda. All the evidence seems to point to
McCauley. Two prostitutes even noted down a licence plate number of a car
driven by the killer. It matches his.
McCauley knows he didn’t kill Varilla, but, with Ethical Standards
convinced of his guilt and a major taskforce into gangland killings also
breathing down his neck, how does he prove it?
The blurb on HEAD SHOT says Jarad Henry has worked in the criminal justice
system for the past ten years. It shows. There is a credibility to HEAD
SHOT that implies that Henry knows how things work. He has met the people
and walked the streets. Anyone who has been following the saga of the
Melbourne gangland killings and the success of the Purana taskforce in
securing convictions in relation to the killings, will find more than a
few parallels in HEAD SHOT. I don’t know exactly what Henry’s job has been
the past few years, but I suspect there could be a true crime book there
that might prove even more fascinating than HEAD SHOT.
Henry has a second novel BLOOD SUNSET due for publication in May, 2008 and
I, for one, can’t wait.
March 2008
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