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Paljon pyydetty
The Big Ask,
Markku Pakkila
(translator)
single work
novel
crime
humour
'Murray Whelan is in trouble. A disastrous election result is looming and his days as a political minder seem numbered. But when his boss Angelo Agnelli picks a fight with the trucking industry, and Murray finds himself on the receiving end of a fist at a city nightclub, his employment prospects seem the least of his problems.
'And that’s before he finds himself sampling Cheryl’s melons in the back of a truck at the fruit and vegetable market at five in the morning. With a runaway son on his hands, the police at his heels, adultery in the air and a gun buried in the backyard, Murray faces his toughest test yet.' (Publication summary)
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Something Fishy,
single work
novel
crime
humour
thriller
'The Hon. Murray Whelan MP. Respectability at last.
'And true love, what’s more, in the person of the salty-tongued Lyndal Luscombe—who has in her possession a highly significant ultrasound photo.
'There must be a catch.
'And Murray’s about to reel it in.' (Publication summary)
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Sucked In,
single work
novel
crime
detective
humour
Now pushing fifty, Murray Whelan is spinning his wheels in parliament, a toothless cog in a stalled political machine. The millennium is coming but the prospect of Labor regaining power is utterly remote. But when the remains of a long-dead union official are found in dried-up Lake Nillahcootie, Murray soon gets sucked into murky waters. For a start, it seems that his old mate Charlie Talbot was implicated. But Charlie has just dropped dead of a coronary occlusion in the dining room of the Mildura Grand Hotel, leaving a grieving widow and a lot of unanswered questions. The press is sniffing around and Labor's enemies are lining up for a free kick. And then there's the blackmail attempt. And as if that wasn't enough there's an ALP preselection brawl arcing up. (Back cover)