'The slaughter was extravagant and bloody. And yet there were people 
in the small town of Wedderburn in Central Victoria who, while they did 
not exactly rejoice, quietly thought that Ian Jamieson had done them all
 a favour.' One fine Wednesday evening in October 2014, 
65-year-old Ian Jamieson secured a hunting knife in a sheath to his belt
 and climbed through the wire fence separating his property from that of
 his much younger neighbour Greg Holmes. Less than 30 minutes later, 
Holmes was dead, stabbed more than 25 times. Jamieson returned home and 
took two shotguns from his gun safe. He walked across the road and shot 
Holmes' mother, Mary Lockhart, and her husband, Peter, multiple times 
before calling the police. In this compelling book, Maryrose 
Cuskelly gets to the core of this small Australian town and the people 
within it. Much like the successful podcast S-Town, things aren't always as they seem: Wedderburn begins
 with an outwardly simple murder but expands to probe the dark secrets 
that fester within small towns, asking: is murder something that lives 
next door to us all?

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