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| Author | Leigh Redhead |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Simone Kirsch |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | Allen & Unwin |
Publication date | 2005 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 302 |
| Awards | 2006 The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists; 2006 Davitt Award, Readers Choice, winner |
| ISBN | 1741145538 |
| Preceded by | Peepshow |
| Followed by | Cherry Pie |
Rubdown is a 2005 crime novel by Australian author Leigh Redhead.[1]
It is the second novel in the author's Simone Kirsch series of crime novels, following the author's 2004 novel Peepshow.[2]
It was the winner of the Readers Choice Davitt Award in 2006,[3] and the author was named as one of The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists in 2006.[4]
Synopsis
[edit]Simone Kirsch is engaged to check out Tamara Wade, the daughter of a prominent Melbourne family who has been involved with drugs and has worked in a massage parlor. Then Wade is found dead and Kirsch sets out to investigate.
Critical reception
[edit]Reviewing the novel in Australian Book Review Tony Smith noted: "Simone is a parody of male PIs and a metaphor for all women facing the 'have it all', post-feminist dilemma, and thus Rubdown is serious satire."[5]
In her report about her time as a judge of the Davitt Award for Sisters in Crime, Sue Turnbull cal this novel "a witty, raunchy and frequently violent read about a stripper turned private eye."[6]
Publication history
[edit]After the novel's initial publication in Australia by Allen & Unwin in 2005[1] it was reprinted by the same publisher in 2007.[7]
It was also translated into German in 2007.[8]
Awards
[edit]- 2006 Davitt Award for Readers Choice, winner[3]
- 2006 The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists[4]
- 2006 Ned Kelly Award, Best Novel, shortlisted[9]
Notes
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Rubdown by Leigh Redhead (A&U 2005)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 24 December 2025.
- ^ "Simone Kirsch series by Leigh Redhead". Austlit. Retrieved 24 December 2025.
- ^ a b ""Davitt Award Winners 2001-2025"" (PDF). Sisters in Crime. Retrieved 24 December 2025.
- ^ a b Wyndham, Susan (9 May 2016). "The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists Award turns 20". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 24 December 2025.
- ^ ""Disparate crimes by Tony Smith"". Australian Book Review, September 2005. Retrieved 24 December 2025.
- ^ ""Turning Pages"". The Sunday Age, 29 October 2006. ProQuest 367315970. Retrieved 24 December 2025.
- ^ "Rubdown by Leigh Redhead (A&U 2007)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 24 December 2025.
- ^ "Rubdown by Leigh Redhead (Wilhelm Heyne Verlag)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 24 December 2025.
- ^ ""Ned Kelly Awards 2006"". Stop You're Killing Me. Retrieved 24 December 2025.