The Sundowners

Literature & Fiction

JON CLEARY

Genre Fiction

The Discovery Press

The Beaufort sisters

Contemporary

Collins

In 1966 Sir Walter Springfellow, head of Australian intelligence, vanished mysteriously and without a trace. As a young constable, Scobie Malone investigated the disappearance. Years later some bones are found up in the hills which are presumed to be Sir Walter's, and Detective Inspector Malone finds himself back on the case. His first task is to break the news to Venetia Springfellow, Sir Walter's glamorous widow, whose ruthless ambition has made the Springfellow Corporation a hugely successful company. Then comes news that there has been another death in the family, and one of the Springfellows is to be charged with murder. The police commissioner turns out to have every reason for taking a close interest in the case, but emotional involvement results in his putting unfair pressure on Scobie Malone. Always a straight cop and a decent man, Malone finds his divided loyalties extremely troubling.

Babylon South: A Scobie Malone Novel

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

William Collins Sons

<p>Jon Clearys latest novel sees Scobie Malone crossing swords with a number of old adversaries following the assassination of a leading politician on the steps of the Olympic Tower.As the Sydney 2000 Games draw ever closer, the citys great and good assemble to celebrate the opening of the Olympic Tower. But the gala turns grisly when the State Premier is shot by a sniper.In his twenty years at the head of the Labor Party, The Dutchman had made any number of enemies. Rivals claimed hed reached his sell-by date and should retire. But who wanted him out of the way badly enough to hire a hitman And with ruthless casino boss Jack Aldwych and his son flanking the Premier at the time of the shooting, who can be sure that the hitman found his true targetAs if politcal skulduggery and high-stakes gambling werent enough to contend with, Scobie finds that his daughter Maureen, now a tabloid-TV journalist, is working the same case with terrifying consequences.</p>

Bear Pit

HarperCollins, Publishers

North from Thursday

Self-Help

Relationships

Fontana

Fall of an Eagle

High Road to China

The best-selling tale of the outback Australian family, the Carmodys. Paddy Carmody loves being 'someone whose home is where the sun goes down', but his wife and teenage son are tired of the nomadic life, and want to settle down.

Sundowners, The

Fontana/Collins Books

A nun is found murdered on the steps of the Quality Couch, Sydney's most expensive house of ill repute. She is Sister Mary Magdalene, an idealistic young woman who previously had worked at a mission in Nicaragua. Detective Inspector Scobie Malone, that most human of cops, picks up the trail when he discovers that her real name was Teresa Hourigan--the illegitimate granddaughter of Fingal Hourigan, one of Australia's most powerful businessmen, who is currently entertaining some rich contras at his palatial home. The case leads Malone deep into Hourigan's murky past and threatens to expose the secret the old man has kept since 1929: the reason he hurriedly left Chicago in fear for his life. It also threatens to destroy his ambitions for his son, Archbishop Kerry Hourigan: to become the first-ever Australian pope. But Kerry's fanatical anticommunism has already led him to acts that will fatally endanger his standing in the Vatican.

Now and Then

Murder song

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Lillenas Publishing Company

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