Mayo Street

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Mayo Street. Its a very desirable address. And it seems to promise the perfect suburban dream. Until three of the streets residents die.

Behind its respectable facades lie some terrible secrets, and in the course of one autumn many of them are shockingly exposed. Relationships come under pressure that not all of them can survive.

Enter a couple of unlikely sleuths a teenage girl and a septuagenarian woman. Like their neighbours, both have plenty of problems of their own growing up and growing old are tough enough without having a killer in your street.

Mayo Street takes a deep dive into suburban life in contemporary Australia, where things arent always what they seem.

Author Bio

Mayo Street is Peter Fitzpatricks third novel. Its predecessors, Death in the BackPocket (with Barbara Wenzel) and Promontory, set respectively in an AFL football club and on a bushwalk in the 1920s, are similarly crime-novels-with-a-twist; all three share a keen eye for the complexities and the humour of human behaviour.

Peters writing spans a number of genres: in feature film, his credits include screenplays for Hotel Sorrento (for which he won an AFI Award) and Brilliant Lies; as a biographer, he has published two dual biographies, Pioneer Players: the lives of Louis and Hilda Esson, and The Two Frank Thrings (for which he won the National Biography Award in 2013); and in musical theatre, three of his shows have been professionally staged flowerchildren: the Mamas and Papas Story, Lifes a Circus and CrossXroads (with composer Anthony Costanzo). Another musical, Castros Children (for which Peter has written book and lyrics in collaboration with composer Simon Stone) will have its premiere in 2024.

In a previous life, Peter taught English and Drama at Monash University, where he was Foundation Head and Professor of Performing Arts. He directed some thirty productions during that period, at Monash and beyond, and published three books and many articles in the field of twentieth-century Australian theatre.

Peter lives in Melbourne (and sometimes in Port Douglas) with his wife, Gabrielle Baldwin.