''Smoke and Mirrors'' is 2008 crime novel by

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Kel Robertson Kel Robertson is an Australian novelist who was born in the 1950s on the south coast of New South Wales. His novel ''Smoke & Mirrors'' shared the 2009 Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel, with ''Deep Water'' by Peter Corris. Robertson lived in Sydne ...

. It won the 2009

Ned Kelly Award The Ned Kelly Awards (named for bushranger Ned Kelly) are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in both the crime fiction and true crime genres. They were established in 1996 by the Crime Writers Association of Australia to rewar ...

for Best Fiction. It is the second novel in the author's series about Australian Chinese Federal Police detective Brad Chen.

Abstract

Ace detective Brad Chen is lured back to work by the double murder of a Whitlam government minister and the editor of his political memoirs. The body count rises as Chen uncovers the deadly secret behind the most momentous events in Australian political history.

Reviews

* ''AustCrime Blog'' * ''Fair Dinkum Crime''"Smoke and Mirrors by Kel Robertson", ''Fair Dinkum Crime''
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Publication history

After the novel's original publication in 2008 by

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, it was reprinted later that same year by the same publisher. In 2010 it was reprinted by

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Awards and nominations

* 2009 won

for Best Fiction - joint winner with '' Deep Water'' by

Peter Corris Peter Robert Corris (8 May 1942 – 30 August 2018) was an Australian academic, historian, journalist and a novelist of historical and crime fiction. As crime fiction writer, he was described as "the Godfather of contemporary Australian crime-w ...

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