1995

Pink Water Dawn

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Crime Fiction

A man dies after being dunked in a vat of toxic chemicals. A ship explodes in Port Phillip Bay, leaving a poisonous fallout. A pall of black smoke hangs over Melbourne's western suburbs as Jack Speerman begins his investigations into a cover up of lethal proportions. As Jack digs deeper, he unearths everything from crooked horse racing and money laundering on the trail of an illicit trade in chemical weapons, made right in Melbourne's own backyard. The stakes are high and the bodycount is even higher on a switchback ride of cross and double cross. Vengeance is a game no one can win.

ISBN: 
0733602711
Location: 
Melbourne
Publisher: 
Coronet Books
Year of Publication: 
1995

Devil You Know

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Thriller

This 90s thriller romance moves between the boardrooms of Sydney and the "Deliverance" country of the Tasmanian wilderness.

Heroine Brady Martin, twenty-eight and unemployed, ignites a rebellion among th Tasmanian farmers who are being forced off their land by the banks. Meanwhile, in Sydney, the chiefs of a new investment organisation play a dicey game with the nation's workers' superannuation funds.

The thrusts of the story come together in a passionate and powerful tale of kidnap and murder.

Special Interests: 
Finance
ISBN: 
1862543410
Location: 
Sydney
Tasmania
Publisher: 
Wakefield Press
Year of Publication: 
1995

Deathwatch

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Thriller

Written by the author of "Venom", this is a novel set at the end of 1941 on the South Pacific island of Santa Maria, which is still a tranquil idyll in the midst of a world broken by the drunken brawling of its most disreputable citizen, Patrick Corrigan.

ISBN: 
0340562390
Location: 
South Pacific
Publisher: 
Sceptre
Year of Publication: 
1995

Inside Dope

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
New Zealand
Category: 
Crime Fiction

Former cop, Duane Ricketts, made two big mistakes in his life.

The first was being fingered for buying heroin-laced cigarettes. A mistake that would see him languishing in a Thai jail for a couple of months.

His second mistake was to become friendly with Frank Varty.

Varty is apparently the only preson who knows the exact whereabouts of 10kg of high-grade cocaine from an aborted run into New Zealand by boat 10 years ago.

Then, wouldn't you know it, Varty is killed by the partner of a Thai ladyboy and Ricketts is on hand to hear his final words.

ISBN: 
0575603941
Location: 
Australia
New Zealand
Thailand
Publisher: 
Random House Australia
Year of Publication: 
1995

Fair Play

Author's Home Country: 
New Zealand
Category: 
Crime Fiction

The son of a Baptist preacher, Bryce Petty looked like a choir boy. But when he is found murdered in Wellington, New Zealand, his less-than-angelic past becomes front-page news. President of the Melbourne-based gay and lesbian broadcasting firm, Spectrum Television, Bryce has left behind him a trail of debts and a slew of enemies.

Sub Genre: 
Gay & Lesbian Fiction
ISBN: 
1562800817
Location: 
Melbourne
New Zealand
Series: 
Amanda Valentine
Publisher: 
Naiad Press
Year of Publication: 
1995

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