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Melbourne en invierno. Lluvia. Viento. Bares. Cerveza. Sexo. Corrupción. Un asesinato. A Jack Irish, un mensaje en el contestador de su antiguo cliente, Danny McKillop, no le suena de nada. La vida ya es lo bastante dura como para tener que volver a sacar a la luz viejos problemas: su equipo de fútbol favorito continúa perdiendo, los pronósticos en su última apuesta en las carreras parecen imposibles, y to...

Peter Temple held crime writing up to the light and, with his poet's ear and eye, made it his own incomparable thing.

An unfinished final Jack Irish story features in these collected writings from the late Peter Temple, which also include literary criticism and stories.

Peter Temple held crime writing up to the light and, with his poet's ear and eye, made it his own incomparable thing.

Investigator Frank Calder races the clock to uncover the truth behind disappearance of a beautiful fifteen-year-old. It's not the first kidnapping in her family

Mysticism in Early Modern England traces how mysticism featured in polemical and religious discourse in seventeenth-century England and explores how it came to be viewed as a source of sectarianism, radicalism, and, most significantly, religious enthusiasm.

Jack's trying to save a beautiful sculptress from a murder rap. He soon falls into a world of shady deals, sexual secrets and country rednecks

Jack's been hired to find a missing man. But some powerful and dangerous people also seem to have an interest in his whereabouts.

When an old friend of Jack's late father asks for his help, Jack's happy to oblige. But sometimes people go missing for good reason.

Meet Jack Irish, criminal lawyer, debt collector, football lover, turf watcher, trainee cabinetmaker, and one of the best crime characters ever created.

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This book is about statistics - and what they can tell us about economics and financial markets. But before you put it down, imagining the subject will be dry and boring, think again... It is easy to do down statistics and other market indicators. Benjamin Disraeli once commented that they were "lies, damn lies and statistics". However imperfect they may be, indicators are important to investors. The main reason being that they provide the eco...

Mickey Franklin was shot dead in his shower on a Saturday evening. Before long, his girlfriend - Sarah Longmore - was in custody. She had a gun and a key, and a witness placed her at the scene. Plus, she'd recently discovered that Mickey was screwing her sister: hardly a locked-room mystery, then, on the face of things. However, Sarah's case will prove to be far from straightforward, and Jack Irish's investigation far from quick and painless.

FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General

THE AWARD-WINNING DEBUT NOVEL, AND FIRST JACK IRISH THRILLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BROKEN SHORE AND TRUTH.

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Mac Faraday is a man with a past living a quiet life in the country - until his beloved friend Ned Lowey is found hanged. Is it suicide? Faraday won't accept that and starts to ask questions. Why did Ned visit Kinross Hall, the local home for juvenile girls? Why did he keep press cuttings about the skeleton of a girl found in an old mine shaft? Who was the beaten girl found naked beside a lonely road? As Faraday's search begins to uncover chil...

John Anselm's a former Beirut hostage, a war correspondent who went to one war too many. A burnt-out case, he's working for a semi-legal Hamburg surveillance firm and trying to come to terms with his past. Then into his life comes Con Niemand, ex-mercenary and professional survivor. Niemand has stumbled across evidence of a terrible secret and now he's on the run. Against his will, Anselm is plunged into a world of violence, betrayal and death...

He was closing in on me. I could hear his running foot-steps over the sound of my heart, of the blood in my ears, of my panting. The Children's playground ahead, beyond that the road gleaming wetly in the streetlight, the school, a light on in the school, a cleaner at work...If I could reach the road. Just reach the road. Jack Irish - lawyer, gambler and people-finder - is hunting down the villains who hijacked the winnings from his latest bet...