Title: No Weather For A BurialAuthor: David OwenPages: 153Published Date: 2010Publisher: Forty Degrees South PublishingSeries Details: 5th book in the Pufferfish seriesPublisher’s SynopsisHow long should long service leave be?Pufferfish, aka Detective Inspector Franz Heineken, scourge of Tasmania’s villains, is back. And back with a seriously refreshed vengeance. Pufferfish, prickly, curmudgeonly and irony-charged as ever, is …
Title: The Devil TakerAuthor: David OwenPages: 316Published Date: 1997Publisher: Mandarin AustraliaSeries Details: 4th book in the Pufferfish seriesPublisher’s SynopsisToward the finish of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, a leading boat sights a dinghy crewed by a bloated corpse – wearing only Bermuda shorts and a six-inch galley knife in its back.When Detective Inspector Franz …
Title: X and YAuthor: David OwenPages: 272Published Date: 1995Publisher: Mandarin AustraliaSeries Details: 3rd book in the Pufferfish seriesPublisher’s SynopsisDrug barons and international operators move in on the Apple Isle for what looks like easy pickings. Detective Inspector Franz Heineken – aka Pufferfish – is busy tracking a series of top-drawer break-ins, when he is assigned …
Title: A Second HandAuthor: David OwenPages: 284Published Date: 1995Publisher: Mandarin AustraliaSeries Details: 2nd book in the Pufferfish seriesPublisher’s SynopsisDetective Inspector Franz Heineken, aka Pufferfish, is a cop who loves to be loathed.Roaming the backwaters of his bedevilled island home, Pufferfish is led to investigate a mysterious and clueless attack on a second-hand dealer. But while …
Title: Pig’s HeadAuthor: David OwenPages: 269Published Date: 1994Publisher: Mandarin AustraliaSeries Details: 1st book Pufferfish seriesPublisher’s SynopsisThere are good cops, there are bad cops…and there is Pufferfish, aka Detective Inspector Franz Heineken.Pufferfish (Contusus brevicaudus): Body moderately short, pectorals rounded. Slow swimmer. Scavenger in the mud, at home in the murky shallows, where it roots out and …
Title: Deal Me OutAuthor: Peter CorrisPages: 191Published Date: 1986Publisher: Allen & UnwinSeries Details: 8th book in the Frank Swann seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisCliff Hardy starts out to help a friend but before long he’s looking for an enemy – William Mountain: boozer, TV scriptwriter, would-be novelist who is missing and searching for adventure. Mountain’s …
Title: LapseAuthor: Sarah ThorntonPages: 291Published Date: 6 August 2019Publisher: Text PublishingSeries Details: 1st book in the Clementine Jones seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisAll it took was a lapse…a momentary lapse…to bring Clementine Jones’ world crashing down. Now she’s living like a hermit in small-town Katinga, coaching the local footy club. She’s supposed to be lying …
Title: The Night WhistlerAuthor: Greg WoodlandPages: 291Published Date: 4 August 2020Publisher: Text PublishingSeries Details: 1st book in the Moorabool seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisThe summer of 1966–7. Hal and his little brother have just come to live in Moorabool. They’re exploring the creek near their new home when they find the body of a dog.Not …
Publisher’s SynopsisSarah and Ginny have been best friends since school. They both had their share of adolescent problems but now things are working out for Sarah. She’s met Tom. He’s handsome, a journalist and totally devoted to her. Her TV reporting career is taking off. She and Tom have moved into a stunning inner-city apartment.But …
Publisher’s SynopsisTough Aussie spy, Alan McQueen, was once a star of the global intelligence community, renowned for having shot and killed Abu Sabaya, one of the world’s most dangerous terrorists.But that was 2002.During a routine assignment in Indonesia, McQueen – aka Mac – discovers Sabaya is not in fact dead. Instead he’s teamed up with …