Mick Goodenough Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Night Whistler | 2020 | Buy |
| The Carnival is Over | 2022 | Buy |
Greg Woodland is an Australian crime writer who came to fiction after a long career in screenwriting and filmmaking. Since 2000, he has worked as a freelance script developer and editor through his online service Script Central, and he has taught screenwriting at Sydney film schools and universities. The Night Whistler, published in 2020, is his first novel.
The Night Whistler is set in small-town Australia during the summer of 1966-67 and was inspired by a real event from Woodland’s childhood, when his mother was stalked by an anonymous caller while his father traveled for work. In the novel, Constable Mick Goodenough, recently demoted from a detective post in the city, investigates threatening phone calls that no one else in town takes seriously. The book was shortlisted for the 2021 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Novel.
The sequel, The Carnival is Over, followed in 2022 and continues Goodenough’s story. Woodland’s background in screenwriting gives his prose a visual, scene-driven quality that suits the suspense genre well.