(Paperback, 5th edition)

When hordes of 18-year-old schoolies celebrate the last of their exams, the Waterloo police expect reports of party drugs and underage drinkers. They don't count on a brutal bashing that attracts political attention. Then a bludgeoned corpse is found outside town, and it's clear something much darker than adolescent craziness is going down.

(Paperback)

Nine-year old Katie is missing. Detective Destry, alert to rumours of a paedophile ring, is thinking abduction. Her colleagues are thinking bad family, truancy. Her boss is thinking about the media. And everyone, including Ellen, is wondering whether she's good enough to handle this without D.I. Challis. Australian author.

(Paperback)

(Paperback, New edition)

Superintendent McQuarrie is not well liked. Bullying bureaucrat, dapper golfer and Chamber of Commerce toady. But when his daughter- in-law is brutally murdered in front of her 7 year-old daughter, the team are quick to respond. Was her death something to do with sex parties down on the Peninsula How many people are hiding something

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Hal Challis is in trouble at home and abroad: carpeted by the boss for speaking out about police budget cuts; missing his lover, Ellen Destry, who is overseas on a study tour. But there's plenty to keep his mind off his problems.