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Dove
  • Published: 31 March 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761355028
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $38.00
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Dove

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From the winner of the 2025 Davitt Award for debut crime fiction

A provocative question. A community on edge. A murder waiting to happen.

'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 confrontation with the man next door, Dove paints a daring question on the front wall of her Sunshine Coast hinterland farm: 'What would you do if you had a whole day on earth free of men?'

When tourists and local women answer by writing their pent-up frustrations, fears and confessions, it strikes a nerve with the local blokes. With nowhere to hide from exposed secrets and shameful legacies, tensions boil up, just as the town hits the headlines over a missing teen.

As media scrutiny grows and Dove faces anonymous threats, she fears her secret romance might harbour its own hidden dangers.
  • Published: 31 March 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761355028
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $38.00
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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