Highway 13 by Fiona McFarlane

Highway 13 by Fiona McFarlane'Every one of them was a whole world, full of love and curiosity, and every one of these worlds touched hundreds of others.'A gripping, haunting work about the reverberations of a serial killer's crimes in the lives of everyday people. In 1998, an apparently ordinary Australian man is arrested and charged with a series of brutal murders of backpackers along a highway. The news shocks the nation, bringing both horror and resolution to the victims'

'Every one of them was a whole world, full of love and curiosity, and every one of these worlds touched hundreds of others.'A gripping, haunting work about the reverberations of a serial killer's crimes in the lives of everyday people.In 1998, an apparently ordinary Australian man is arrested and charged with a series of brutal murders of backpackers along a highway. The news shocks the nation, bringing both horror and resolution to the victims' families, but its impact travels even further - into the past, as the murders rewrite personal histories, and into the future, as true crime podcasts and biopics tell the story of the crimes. Highway 13 takes murder as its starting point, but it unfolds to encompass much more: through the investigation of the aftermath of this violence across time and place, from the killer's home town in country Australia to the tropical Far North, and to Texas and Rome, McFarlane presents an unforgettable, entrancing exploration of the way stories are told and spread, and at what cost.