Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction, this is the second Murray Whelan adventure. Murray Whelan, political minder, is world-weary, terminally horny and addicted to cigarettes. On a sultry Melbourne summer night, while Murray is in the Botanic Gardens tasting Salina Fleet's apricot lips,
The Big Brush-off
โ Scribed by Murphy, Michael
- Book ID
- 109189806
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 851 KB
- Series
- Jake and Laura 4
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780553393385
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
The irresistible Jake & Laura return in Michael Murphy's witty, fast-paced mystery series--perfect for readers of Dorothy Cannell and Christopher Fowler. In The Big Brush-off, the charming and indomitable duo heads to the Midwest to solve a chilling cold case of a young girl's murder.
Blackie Doyle is dying. That's what Jake Donovan's literary agent tells him. Sales are falling, and the rough draft of Jake's latest Blackie novel doesn't look promising. Maybe Jake has been distracted by a recent barrage of real-life homicides, or by his marriage to the beautiful up-and-coming actress Laura Wilson, now slated for a part opposite Clark Gable himself. Whatever the reason, Jake decides to return to his roots. Which is why he and Laura hop the next train to the small town in Indiana where Jake once worked as a Pinkerton detective.
Ten years ago, the murder of a teenage girl interrupted life in quiet, God-fearing Hanover. The unsolved case has always...
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