The Tall Man

It is impossible to overestimate the importance of this book

Peter Carey

Hooper fills in the background with a light touch.... She instinctively grasps the most telling detail... This is a brilliant vignette in which one appalling incident illuminates a saga of social breakdown

Sara Wheeler, The Times

Queensland's police force - along with its tourist board - won't thank Hooper for The Tall Man, but the rest of us should. This meticulous, compelling portrayal of the dark side of Australian life deserves the widest possible audience

Sunday Times

An important, brilliant, perceptive book

Literary Review

Has already drawn comparisons with some of the best of that often derided genre, true crime, and it fully deserves the attention...this gracefully nuanced book is as much about the world in which a death takes place as the nature of death itself

Guardian

Povocative and visceral

Barry Forshaw, The Times

This compelling portrait of the dark side of life down under deserves to be widely read

Brian Schofield, Sunday Times

So sharply self-aware, laser-precise in its observation, so brutal, and still so tender. It's a masterpiece: true crime writing where Hooper takes no prisoners

Skye Arundhati Thomas, White Review, *Books of the Year*