Amateur Detectives

A Hand In the Bush

Karen — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:20:52 +1000

ISBN 1877008966

Blurb from the book:

In the heady days of the seventies, and at the tender age of nineteen, Decca Brand experimented with what was on offer - sex, drugs and intrigue. Far too much intrigue, it turns out, and of a sort that spells murder. Fast forward nearly thirty years and Decca is confronted by dangerous figures from her past. Not only that, the stunning psychologist and divorcee has a blind date lined up with a married man. And then things start to get complicated.

A Hand In the Bush is about skeletons in the closet, and simply being in the closet. It is also the mravellous new comic thriller, brimful with wit and menace, from the irrepressible Jane Clifton.

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Submitted by helen on Thu, 06/09/2007 - 10:38pm.

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Clifton, Jane

Karen — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:20:56 +1000

About the Author

Jane Clifton is an Australian actress and singer. Her best known acting role is probably that of tough crim Margo Gaffney in Prisoner. She played the role from 1980 until 1984 on an intermittant basis.

Clifton has also acted extensively in film and the stage and in various television programs. Films include The Clinic and A Slice of Life. Stage roles include The Pack of Women and Mum's the Word. Television appearances include Sweet and Sour and a guest appearance in Carson's Law. She has more recently acted in an episode of Shock Jock (on Foxtel's TV1) playing Barry Gold's mother.

Clifton is also an accomplished singer. In the early 1980s she had several Australian hit singles, including Taxi Mary recorded with Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons, and the song The Girl on the Wall taken from the show The Pack of Women. She has more recently released a CD entitled The Marriage Of Style

Author's Website & Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Clifton

Bibliography

Half Past Dead
A Hand In the Bush

Is Jane Clifton one of your favourite authors?

Submitted by helen on Thu, 06/09/2007 - 10:31pm.

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sunniefromoz — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:53:35 +1100

DEADLY BUSINESS, A - Lenny Bartulin

Karen — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:37:10 +1000

DIAMOND DOVE - Adrian Hyland

sunniefromoz — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:39:39 +1000

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Karen — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:08:02 +1100

Grim Pickings

Karen — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:21:01 +1000

ISBN 055329122X

Blurb from the book

The old crowd had gathered at Aunt Alice's once again - to pick apples against a chilly orchard setting. Beneath the surface were the usual boiling jealousies, frustrations and uneasy gaps between the generations and in-laws. Or was there something different about this year?

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Submitted by Karen on Fri, 05/10/2007 - 4:02pm.

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Half Past Dead

Karen — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:21:01 +1000

ISBN 1877008141

Blurb from the book:

Ronnie Collins is an up and coming fashion designer, a devoted mother and the proud owner of a working marriage with Boyd.

So waking up naked and hung-over in a colleague's bed doesn't seem like an ideal life plan. Even before she finds the colleague's corpse on the front doormat.

From there Ronnie's work life and home life just gets more complicated.

Does her boss Dexter know more of what's going on? How is he involved?

Where is Lawrence - in Thailand or in a car-boot?

Is husband Boyd re-igniting his fascination for old flame Katie?

And should Ronnie have taken up more of her mother's advice?

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Submitted by helen on Thu, 06/09/2007 - 10:42pm.

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Karen — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:02:16 +1100

Murder by Wash of Light

Karen — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:21:07 +1000

ISBN 1863021477

Blurb from the book:

When a famous, but hated, movie producer seems to have been killed by the very film technique he claimed to have invented, journalist Peter Caridman turns detective. The tightly woven plot, against a glamorous Canberra background, moves to a brilliant conclusion.

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Submitted by helen on Sun, 09/09/2007 - 6:49pm.

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