Reviews:

Spinifex has just released darkness more visible, a new crime novel from Finola Moorhead (author of Quilt, Remember the Tarantella and Still Murder). But this is by no means your average crime book. For starters, it's very long – 650 pages of small print – and it just doesn't play out like a crime novel. Oh, there's a dead body ... and a PI (triathlete, Margot Gorman, introduced in Still Murder) but Moorhead believes darkness more visible should be regarded as a serious work of literature. The book you take, she says, is the sort you take on holiday with you to have time to digest, like a Middlemarch or a Dickens'.

Moorhead spent some time in the nineties living in a women's separatist collective and a separatist philosophy underlies the book. There is also a sense that Moorhead had a lot to say and was determined to say it – at all costs. The dialogue in particular tends to be on the lengthy side, and the male characters are not a pleasant bunch. But when she self edits, Moorhead is a sharp writer with a lot to say about lesbian culture and queer culture in general. In part she's very funny and refreshingly never worried about political correctness. Overall darkness more visible is worth a look – but be warned, it's a long, long book.

– Phoebe Everett, MCV, Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Weekly News