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'It takes months for Australian social psychologist Janine McQuarrie to succumb to her husband’s pressure to attend spouse-swapping parties, but eventually she gives in. Then, driving with her young daughter one day, she gets out of her car to ask directions and is shot and killed. The little girl escapes when the gunman’s pistol misfires.
'Inspector Hal Challis of the Crime Investigation Unit is assigned the case, but his efforts are thwarted by his boss. The dead woman was Superintendent McQuarrie’s daughter-in-law, and he seems to be more interested in protecting his son than in finding his daughter-in-law’s murderer. Who might have a motive to kill this attractive young wife and mother? One of her clients? One of the swingers she’d gotten together with at a party? Or, the obvious suspect, her husband?'
Source: Publisher's blurb (Soho Crime ed.).
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Dedication: For Chris.
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Featured by the BIG Book Club, an initiative supported by the Advertiser in partnership with Arts SA, The Australia Council for the Arts, South Australian public libraries and FIVEAA to promote a love of reading, discussion and literature, January, 2007.
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A Man in Two Minds
2007
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 20 January 2007; (p. 11) -
Readers Revel in Finding Out Just Whodunit
2007
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 6 January 2007; (p. 28) -
Around the World in 80 Books : Oceania
2005-2006
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— Appears in: The Bulletin , 20 December-10 January vol. 123 no. 6501 2005-2006; (p. 159)
— Review of Snapshot 2005 single work novel -
Cool Crime
2005-2006
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January no. 277 2005-2006; (p. 61-62)
— Review of Snapshot 2005 single work novel ; A Thing of Blood 2005 single work novel ; Dirty Weekend 2005 single work novel -
The Dangerous, Dark Side of the Peninsula
2005
single work
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— Appears in: The Age , 26 November 2005; (p. 27)
— Review of Snapshot 2005 single work novel
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Sexy and Seedy in Waterloo
2005
single work
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— Appears in: The West Australian , 3 October 2005; (p. 6)
— Review of Snapshot 2005 single work novel -
Vivid Pictures in Murder He Wrote
2005
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 22 - 23 October 2005; (p. 6)
— Review of Snapshot 2005 single work novel -
Thrilled to Bits - Literally
2005
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review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 29 October 2005; (p. 10)
— Review of Snapshot 2005 single work novel ; Rubdown 2005 single work novel ; Dirty Weekend 2005 single work novel -
The Dangerous, Dark Side of the Peninsula
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 26 November 2005; (p. 27)
— Review of Snapshot 2005 single work novel -
Cool Crime
2005-2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January no. 277 2005-2006; (p. 61-62)
— Review of Snapshot 2005 single work novel ; A Thing of Blood 2005 single work novel ; Dirty Weekend 2005 single work novel -
Readers Revel in Finding Out Just Whodunit
2007
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 6 January 2007; (p. 28) -
A Man in Two Minds
2007
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 20 January 2007; (p. 11)
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