It's the Sixties and Australian university students are marching against the war. They are demanding the release of a conscientious objector. Somehow a peaceful demonstration turns into a riot.
A young woman student is struck down and killed. The demonstrators are blamed by an...Read more
This book is quite different from Patricia Carlon's usual psychological mysteries, and it is far from her best work. Originally published in 1970, this book shows its age, not just in style but in the plot. The plot had potential, but is let down by boring characters and what I believe was...Read more
When newspaper reporter Evan Kiley's son is kidnapped, he contacts the scion of a wealthy family whose daughter was abducted and returned a year earlier after paying the ransom, and together the two men conspire to get the boy back, hatching a plot that will end in murder.Read more
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Ted Waite hadn't meant to shoot Arnold Grenfel, it was a reflex action. And now the bank's alarm had gone off, there was not time to take the money. Where could he go? The police were already alerted. A car perhaps, but that was futile. He could not get out of the town, and he'd still got a...Read more
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