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Chloe Hooper
Chloe Melisande Hooper is an Australian author. Works contributed to: - Essay Diary of a Convert in [Bewitched & Bedevilled: Women Write the Gillard Years](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL22909329W) (Hardie Grant Books, 2013)
A Child's Book of True Crime
Synopsis
A young girl's morbid fascination with true crime leads her to investigate a local murder case, and the book is narrated through her scrapbook-style notes and drawings — this framing device, plus the darkly comic tone and the gap between her innocent voice and the gruesome subject matter, push it into the crime/mystery genre rather than pure horror or thriller territory. The murder of a local man and the girl's obsession with it is the central plot, and the book is a coming-of-age story about her loss of innocence as she grapples with the reality of violence and the ambiguity of truth.