The Clickbait co-creator’s latest crime fiction explores moral panic and malevolent forces in small-town Australia, but is let down by crudely drawn characters
A teenage girl who mysteriously disappears; a dark and disturbed youth who might be worshipping Satan; a paranoid community; a vengeful father; a man with everything to lose. Wild Place has all the ingredients of a classic page-turner.
The third novel by author and screenwriter Christian White (who co-created the Netflix hit Clickbait and co-wrote horror film Relic) is set in the small community of Camp Hill on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula (the area where the author also lives). Taking place in the final weeks of 1989, we meet Tracie briefly before she vanishes. She’s seemingly as innocent as the driven snow. The police and detectives tell her parents that it’s likely she’s run away. Is it because of their divorce, or has she escaped the confines of small-town existence with a boy?
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