β Scribed by Green, J. M.
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
"All Stella Hardy wants is a romantic country getaway with her artist boyfriend, Brophy. Instead, she must head to the Athol Goldwater Agricultural Prison (aka Arsehole Bogwater) to visit her jailbird brother, Ben, and sort out some βurgentβ family paperwork. But Stella has barely set foot in the prison when a prisoner, Joe Phelan, is found dead. Before she knows it, Stella finds herself tasked, against her will, with investigating Joeβs suspicious death away from the eyes of police, including her best friend, Detective Phuong Nguyen. Her old nemesis Minister for Justice Marcus Pugh is pressuring her from above to save his election-year bacon, and Joeβs old friend and former gang member, Percy Brash, is providing a much more chilling form of pressure from below, promising to reduce her to mush and bone fragments if she doesnβt give him the name of Joeβs killer, and soon. As the clock counts down, Stella becomes embroiled in a story of corruption, conspiracy, and high-tech cattle-wrangling, all while trying to manage her brotherβs pregnant girlfriend, Loretta, get to the bottom of Brophyβs increasingly strange behaviour, and evade the murderous intentions of a shadowy mercenary. And then things get really crazy. Itβs Stellaβs last hurrah, and sheβs going out with a bang."--Provided by publisher.
Victoria -- Melbourne
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