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Lugarno

Drug-dealing and corruption are at the center of Cliff Hardy's 24th case  

I was about to punch in the number when a man loomed up beside me. When I say loomed I mean loomed—he was tall and wide with a shaven head, and the pale hand that plucked the mobile...Read more

Accidental Murder

In this novel, top Australian cop Carol Ashton tracks the most elusive killer of her career. When people with no obvious connection to each other are dying in what appear to be legitimate accidents, nothing seems amiss, until Carol Ashton receives a call from a private investigator.Read more

The Big Drop

A client happens to fall from the twentieth story of a building; a rock star goes missing; an erotic Mongol scroll vanishes; a film star has a problem that has nothing to do with creativity - it's all in a day's work for Cliff Hardy. Yachts dance on the sparkling waters of the harbour, and...Read more

The Murder On The Links

When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-sur-Mer to meet their client Paul Renauld, they learn from the police that he has been found that morning stabbed in the back with a letter opener and left in a newly-dug grave adjacent to a...Read more

Murder at the Nightwood Bar

Kate Delafield investigates the murder of a homeless 19-year-old addict-prostitute, whose battered body is found outside a popular lesbian bar.Read more

An Unsuitable Job For A Woman

Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers...Read more

How I Became the Mr Big of People Smuggling

Nick Smart is fresh out of school, a wet-behind-the-ears jackaroo on a gap year. But at Palmenter Station, nothing is what it seems. Nick is about to discover there’s a lot of grey between black and white, between legal and illegal and between right and wrong.Read more

Murder Comes to U3A

A suspected serial killer stalks the ranks of the local U3A branch.Read more