Peter Corris, Allen & Unwin (IPG, dist.), $12.95 trade paper (214p) ISBN 978-1-74175-677-7
At the start of this uninspired entry in Australian author Corris's long-running crime series featuring PI Cliff Hardy (Open File, etc.), Cliff wakes up after a serious heart attack in a San Diego hospital. Margaret McKinley, the good-looking...
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Peter Corris, Author Doubleday Books $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-42119-5
Australian ``enquiry agent'' Cliff Hardy investigates the death of a trucking entrepreneur in this smartly paced caper. In a first-chapter twist, Hardy learns he's been offered the job via a note left posthumously by the victim, Barnes Todd, who has
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Peter Corris. Allen & Unwin (IPG, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-74237-139-9
Despite Australian Kelly's receipt of the 2009 Ned Kelly Crime Fiction Award for Deep Water, the next-to-latest entry in the long-running Cliff Hardy crime novel series, this current effort is unimpressive and will have readers wondering what the...
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Peter Corris. Allen & Unwin (IPG, dist.), $19.95 trade paper (260p) ISBN 978-1-742373-79-9
Australian author Corris’s solid 30th Cliff Hardy crime novel (after 2010’s Torn Apart) finds Hardy yet again in desperate straits. Recent events have deprived the Sydney detective of his private investigator’s license, and he’s run through a...
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Peter Corris. Allen & Unwin (IPG, dist.), $19.95 trade paper (252p) ISBN 978-1-74237-724-7
Now that Cliff Hardy has his PI license back in Ned Kelly Award–winner Corris’s well-crafted 37th book featuring the Sydney detective (after 2012’s Follow the Money), Hardy has to determine whether he can adapt to today’s world or whether modern...
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Peter Corris. Allen & Unwin (IPG, dist.), $19.95 trade paper (248p) ISBN 978-1-74331-022-9
In Australian author Corris’s intriguing well-paced 32nd novel featuring Sydney PI Cliff Hardy (after 2012’s Comeback), the investigator tries to untangle a mystery surrounding the sinking of the luxury ship Dunbar in 1857. Academic Henry Wakefield...
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Peter Corris. Allen & Unwin (IPG, dist.), $22.95 trade paper (264p) ISBN 978-1-76011-207-3
Ned Kelly Award–winner Corris’s 41st book featuring Australian PI Cliff Hardy (after 2015’s Gun Control) doesn’t pull its punches. The death of former client Barry Bartlett prompts Hardy to reminisce to his grown daughter, Megan, about his work for...
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Peter Corris. Allen & Unwin (IPG, dist.), $19.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-76029-478-6
Ned Kelly Award–winner Corris’s workmanlike 42nd and final crime novel featuring PI Cliff Hardy (after 2016’s That Empty Feeling) takes Hardy on a fast-paced, libation-fueled chase from Sydney to various towns along the Australian coast in search of
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