Melissa Chan

Getting Your Man

Getting your man, getting the right man, is not always easy. But women whether they be pieceworkers, housewives, artists, business women or farmers, know just how to get their man. In the tradition of Thelma and Louise, women’s revenge drives these stories.Read more

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Guilt

When a self-styled king of the corporate world is shot down in a Melbourne traffic jam and his death is followed by that of a prominent member of the conservative opposition frontbench and of a leading light of the Donors' club, Inspector Joe Barnaby joins independent feminist detective...Read more

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Guilt, Melissa Chan

Not sure if I've developed a bit more tolerance for the issue based style of this series, or whether or not it's balanced out a bit better in this book than it was in TOO RICH.

What it could actually be is a bit more of a plot, which...Read more

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Melissa Chan

Spies, Lies and Watching Eyes

Modern-day Mataharis, 'wallflowers' with wide-open eyes and better things to do than wait to be asked to dance, cloak-and-dagger hidden under the easy disguise of the dolly-bird, industrial espionage camouflaged in common-or-garden 'gossip': they say women and crime don't mix. Or do they...Read more

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Too Rich

‘You can never be too thin or too rich,’ said Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor. But Francesca Miles, independent feminist detective, disagrees. When one of the richest men in Sydney is found dead in his penthouse, she teams up with Inspector Joe Barnaby in a mystery that follows the...Read more

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Too Rich, Melissa Chan

Little housework first - Melissa Chan is a pseudonym for Dr Jocelynne Scutt, Australian feminist lawyer, writer and commentator. TOO RICH was published in 1991 by Spinifex Press, and I distinctly remember when reading it originally at the time of publication, feeling somewhat "cause...Read more

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Melissa Chan

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