Introducing Stella Hardy, a wisecracking social worker with a thirst for social justice, good laksa, and alcohol.

Stella's phone rings. A young African boy, the son of one of her clients, has been murdered in a dingy back alley. Stella, in her forties and running low on empathy, heads into the night to comfort the grieving mother. But when she gets there, she makes a discovery that has the potential to uncover something terrible from her past -- something she thought she'd gotten away with.

Then Stella's neighbour Tania mysteriously vanishes. When Stella learns that Tania is the heir to a billion-dollar mining empire, Stella realises her glamorous young friend might have had more up her sleeve than just a perfectly toned arm. Who is behind her disappearance?

Enlisting the help of her friend Senior Constable Phuong Nguyen, Stella's investigation draws her further and further into a dark world of drug dealers, sociopaths, and killers, such as the enigmatic Mr Funsail, whose name makes even hardened criminals run for cover.

One thing is clear: Stella needs to find answers fast -- before the people she's looking for find her instead.

Set in the bustling, multicultural inner west of Melbourne, Good Money reveals a daring and exciting new voice in Australian crime fiction.

Author

J.M. Green

J.M. Green studied professional writing at RMIT. Good Money, her first novel, was shortlisted for the 2014 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. She lives in Melbourne's western suburbs.

Country of Origin

Books:

Series: Stella Hardy

Book Number:
3
2019
Book Number:
2
2017
Book Number:
1
2015
Review Shoot Through, J.M. Green
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Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Review Too Easy, J.M. Green
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Review Review - Good Money, J.M. Green
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ISBN
9781925106923
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1
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Blog December on AustCrime
Karen Chisholm
Monday, January 11, 2016
Review Review - Good Money, J.M. Green
Karen Chisholm
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Blog Currently Reading - Good Money, J.M. Green
Karen Chisholm
Thursday, October 15, 2015

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