The self-styled, self-important civic leader could not afford to have any embarrassing stories surfacing or his hopes and ambitions for the future would be dashed. Now his problem is how to silence the woman councillor who has discovered his offer to pay the gambling debt of a council officer who has done him a big favour. He plans and executes an impossible murder carried out in a pitch dark council chamber in front of dozens of people. But Edgar Hodgkiss, sharp and observant as ever, was there on the night and missed nothing. Hodgkiss and his friend Pat Strong come to the aid of Pat's friend Mina, who had undergone a traumatic experience as a child in a rather run-down house which had been flooded during a heavy rain 20 years ago. But the old floods and the uprooting of an old tree have current consequences and the old sins cast long shadows. Hodgkiss is peeved when Pat Strong takes a job cataloguing books at the Parliamentary Library. When Pat learns that those in charge of selling off unwanted stock are searching for a very valuable document hidden somewhere in the huge library the complications and the violence begin.

Hodgkiss Mysteries XV: Hodgkiss and the Impossible Murder and other stories

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Sinclair, Peter

Mystery

Silverbird Publishing

Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen. Hodgkiss is witness to an unpleasant scene where an outraged wife threatens her husband's mistress in front of the diners in a crowded Chinese restaurant. When the mistress is viciously murdered the wife moves to the top of Detective Inspector Donald Burke's list of suspects. Donald is not pleased when Hodgkiss demonstrates once again that his investigation is running down the wrong track. One of the regular dog-walkers Hodgkiss meets at the local off-leash oval has written a will in favour of his dog. When the man dies his brother inherits the dog together with many responsibilities that prove rather burdensome if he is to enjoy the other benefits of the will. Soon Hodgkiss fears that the dog, a special friend of his own dog, Rupert, is being abused. When he starts to investigate his worst fears are soon realised. When Donald is confronted by determined criminals who have carefully prepared alibis to throw him off the trail he needs more than a little luck before he can get out the handcuffs. Hodgkiss and his companion Pat Strong, fortunately are on hand to provide the vital information needed to show the criminals were at the wrong place at the wrong time.

The Hodgkiss Mysteries: Hodgkiss and the Lillimoor Ladies' Tennis Club and Other Stories

Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen. Apolitician who is about to be 'outed' by the media is persuaded to disappear before he can bring disgrace on his Party. To achieve this a corrupt policeman invents a novel method of identifying a murder victim in the place of the disappeared politician. It was a method that could have worked but for Hodgkiss' intervention. A bungling burglar drops a stolen ring in the street after performing a theft-to-order for a friend ... stealing jewellery for an insurance fraud. Unfortunately for him the drama takes place in full view of Pat Strong's town house. So when Pat involves Hodgkiss he decides to take a hand. An advertisement in the local paper is all that's needed to bring the incident to a surprising end. Hodgkiss is indisposed when Donald is confronted with another locked room murder puzzle. So Esme accepts the challenge. She visits the crime scene, photographs the suspicious elements, consults her father and they demonstrate to Donald how the murder was done.

The Hodgkiss Mysteries: Volume XXV: Hodgkiss and the Dubious Identification and Other Stories

How often do you stop to think about how your street got its name, or why it starts and ends where it does? The former City of Collingwood (incorporating Abbotsford, Clifton Hill and Collingwood) has its history written in its streets and the more one discovers about its past, the more meaningful the names and layout of the streets become.

Streets, Parks and Lanes of Collingwood: Abbotsford, Clifton Hill and Collingwood

History

Cummings, Karen

Australia & Oceania

The Hodgkiss Mysteries: Hodgkiss and the visit to Henly and Other Mysteries

Agrin, a joyful young woman with sweet dreams has great hopes for a promising future for herself and her family. She lives a peaceful life in a picturesque and harmonious village in the Sinjar Mountains in Iraq. She is unaware that everything is about to change. In 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) commence their attacks on The Yazidi people. So begins a series of endless nightmares for the Yazidi people. ISIS carries out massacres, rapes, and wholesale kidnapping. These crimes set the darkest fires to the life of Agrin and thousands of other people of Sinjar. Agrin is in despair, the world having lost its value. She sees a woman fighting empty-handed with a heavily armed ISIS soldier. Her heroic death kindles in Agrin a burning desire to leave, and a need to breathe for her and her people. Inspired by true events, this is the story of the survival of the Yazidi people against almost impossible odds.

The Tears of Mount Sinjar: Resisting brutal ISIS attacks on the Yazidi people

Literature & Fiction

Soufi, Homeira

Genre Fiction

Cassidy's Odyssey: Book One: I Met Her in Vienna

Pratt, James

Thrillers & Suspense

A Problematic Patriarch: Jonathan Harris (with brief outlines of the lives of his seventeen children)

Biographies & Memoirs

Moore, Garry

Historical

The Sleeper Project

James Pratt

With former Australian SAS Major, Harry Stevens and the Firebird crew heading home from their harrowing, but lucrative Indonesian operation, a call from the Australian PM sees the crew despatched to beautiful Lord Howe Island to investigate some disturbing events. How can a beautiful and tranquil sub-tropical paradise have such a rotten core? Harry's disconcerting habit of attracting trouble strikes again as he encounters: <ul> <li>A wife-beating police officer.....</li> <li>A homicidal maniac terrorising young female tourists.....</li> <li>A major international smuggling operation, involving stolen uncut gemstones.....</li> <li>A very profitable smuggling operation dealing in protected Australian reptiles.....</li> <li>Are any of these linked?</li> <li>Is putting two of Harry's favourite ladies in serious harm's way justified?</li> <li>Can Harry's passion for coming up with complex 'cunning plans', save the ladies?</li> <li>And what does one do with a homicidal Police officer in the absence of witnesses and 'smoking gun' evidence?</li> <li>Who guards the guardian?</li> <li>Doubts and misgivings plague Harry's waking thoughts as the darkest side of humanity increasingly shows its ugliest face.</li> </ul> At least with the diminutive, but deadly Corrine helping Harry and Jasper, there is possibly a way.

Xavier's Legacy: A Tale of Boats, Girls, Greed and Extreme Perversion (Firebird)

Dolby, Ian

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