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Dove
  • Published: 31 March 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761355028
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $34.99
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Dove

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31 Mar 2026
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From the winner of the 2025 Davitt Award for crime fiction

Poke a sore spot in a tight community and tensions will flare.

'Gorgeous writing and an unfolding plot rich in both menace and sensuality, Dove shows just how impactful the best psychological thrillers can be.'
JACQUELINE BUBLITZ

After a violent interaction with her neighbour, Dove has had enough and paints a provocative question on the tourist route-facing wall of her small subsistence farm.

WOMEN: What would you do if you had a whole day on earth free of men?

Slowly, the women residents of this town in the Sunshine Coast hinterland start to make their own additions.

Secrets, shame, hopes, dreams and violent homes are revealed. The town is unsettled. The local ‘good blokes’ start looking at each other askance, generational divides are revealed, relationships implode and tension builds.

When media starts following the story of the wall and threats start appearing among the dreams and statements, all are on edge. And Dove realises her secret romance might hold unexpected dangers.

But no one thought it would all end in murder.
  • Published: 31 March 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761355028
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

Georgia Harper

Georgia Harper is the author of What I Would Do to You, which won Best Debut Book at the 2025 Davitt Awards and was shortlisted for Best Crime Fiction Debut at the 2025 Danger Awards. Georgia has worked as a psychologist with both serious violent offenders and victim-survivors of crime. She was also the Senior Inspector Prosecutions for RSPCA Queensland. Georgia is an ambassador for the Sunshine Coast Hinterland Writers Festival and for child literacy charity Chapters for Change. She writes on Kabi Kabi land on the Sunshine Coast.

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Praise for Dove

Georgia Harper expertly balances the intimacy of small-town-life with an expansive exploration of how women and girls navigate their safety in this world. The central premise alone makes this novel a standout; when combined with Harper's gorgeous writing and an unfolding plot rich in both menace and sensuality, Dove shows just how impactful the best psychological thrillers can be. I finished it with a lump in my throat.

Jacqueline Bublitz

Georgia Harper takes a big swing and hits it out of the park. Dove is character driven crime that asks deep philosophical questions but refuses to offer simple answers. Ambitious, wry and deftly drawn - I loved it.

JP Pomare

Thought-provoking, nuanced and utterly original, Dove is a gripping exploration of power and gender set against the backdrop of 1990s small town Queensland. Georgia Harper’s charismatic unconventional heroine will stay with me for a long time.

Kate Horan
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