A federal election campaign is thrown into chaos when a popular government minister goes missing and then turns up dead on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin.

With Detective Darren Glass and the Australian Federal Police on the case, the investigation into the minister’s murder quickly becomes entangled in a game of high-stakes politics. And all the while, the body count mounts.

Glass’s suspects include some of the most powerful people in the land. With the nation in shock and wanting answers fast, Glass has to negotiate a murky world of shifting allegiances, half-truths, and finger pointing, where everyone has a motive for murder.

And no one is safe — not even the prime minister. As election day nears, Glass risks everything for a breakthrough in the case, and his life is soon hanging by a thread. But if he thought he’d hit rock bottom, he was wrong …

Author

Peter Cotton

Peter Cotton has been the media advisor to three federal cabinet ministers, worked as a foreign correspondent for the ABC, been a senior reporter on the ABC’s AM and PM programs, and had stories published in most major print outlets in Australia.

Country of Origin

Books:

Series: Darren Glass

Book Number:
1
2013
Review DEAD CAT BOUNCE - Peter Cotton
Karen Chisholm
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Blog CR - Dead Cat Bounce, Peter Cotton
Karen Chisholm
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
ISBN
9781922070449
Year of Publication
Series
Book Number (in series)
1
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Review DEAD CAT BOUNCE - Peter Cotton
Karen Chisholm
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Blog CR - Dead Cat Bounce, Peter Cotton
Karen Chisholm
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

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