cover image The Big Ask: A Murray Whelan Mystery

The Big Ask: A Murray Whelan Mystery

Shane Maloney. Arcade Publishing, $23.95 (243pp) ISBN 978-1-55970-560-8

Shane Maloney (Nice Try) presents The Big Ask: A Murray Whelan Mystery, the fourth raucous adventure featuring the charming and reckless Australian political adviser. Murray makes dizzying, sleep-deprived leaps between high-stakes union infighting, his missing 13-year-old son, various love interests, his boss's potential public disgrace and his old friend's murder.