{"product_id":"an-isolated-incident","title":"An Isolated Incident","description":"\u003cp data-w-id=\"db762bef-0e83-a965-62b6-bcdea395875d\" data-wf-id='[\"db762bef-0e83-a965-62b6-bcdea395875d\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-quotes-input\" data-palette=\"Paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Superb writing. 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Rather than creating a simple case of goodies and baddies, Maguire subtly examines the complexity of the human personality. This hugely chilling and evocative story, mixing lyrical language and brutal events, is told with great psychological acuity’ \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-w-id=\"2cc42957-e860-b24c-ba0d-663421d14358\" data-wf-id='[\"2cc42957-e860-b24c-ba0d-663421d14358\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-reviews-input\" data-palette=\"Paragraph\"\u003e‘This is a harrowing, fascinating, compelling work from an accomplished and thoughtful Australian writer who uses the vehicle of a young woman’s death to question and explore society’s treatment of women, the everyday violence it condones and its intrusive fascination with the murder of pretty young women’ \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-w-id=\"4678fd68-015e-5fe4-6ee8-3b16d7fa1b97\" data-wf-id='[\"4678fd68-015e-5fe4-6ee8-3b16d7fa1b97\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-reviews-input\" data-palette=\"Paragraph\"\u003e‘This is far more than a page-turning crime drama, though it is also that. 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