If you followed the show you’ll know that this was a very contentious book for me this year, but despite the hard time we initially gave Robert Gott for his creative reimagining of an infamous death in his hometown of Maryborough, the chaotic William Power finds himself just shy of a podium finish.
Good Murder follows the self-centred William Power as his troupe of actors, the Power Players, arrive in Maryboruough for a performance of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus to a town who are so disinterested that most of them presume that it’s the circus in town and pay it no more mind. All of a sudden William finds himself the town’s main act after local girl Polly Drummond is found dead in the town’s watertower the night after a flirtatious encounter between the two.