title: The Animals Are Innocent: The Search For Julie's Killers
author:  John Ward 
description: The true story of John Ward's search for the killers of his daughter, Julie.
zlib_text: **ABOUT THE BOOK**
  
   _Are you lonesome tonight…_
  
  It’s 1966. Hal and his little brother, newly arrived in Moorabool with their
  parents, are exploring the creek near their new home when they find the body
  of a dog.
  
  Not just dead, but recently killed.
  
  Not just killed, but mutilated.
  
  Constable Mick Goodenough, recently demoted from his city job as a detective,
  is also new in town—and one of his dogs has gone missing. He’s experienced
  enough to know what it means when someone tortures an animal to death: it
  means they’re practising. So when Hal’s mother starts getting anonymous
  calls—a man whistling, then hanging up—Goodenough, alone among the Moorabool
  cops, takes her seriously.
  
  The question is: will that be enough to keep her safe?
  
  Nostalgic yet clear-eyed, simmering with small-town menace, Greg Woodland’s
  wildly impressive debut populates the rural Australia of the 1960s with
  memorable characters and almost unbearable tension.
  
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  CONTENTS
  
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