'Shouts of "stop the presses" are being replaced by the cry of “put it online, mate" and after 25 colourful years as a newspaper reporter and editor, Gary Delaney is having a hard time adjusting to the new digital age. A share in a promising overseas stayer with Melbourne Cup aspirations could erase the memories of a disastrous Mongolian mining investment. But two gamblers recently released from prison have a large cup wager of their own and threaten to derail Delaney's dream in the most unusual and amusing spring carnival Melbourne has even seen.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Great Barrier Grief
Lindisfarne
:
Forty South Publishing
,
2022
24983632
2022
single work
novel
'In this gripping follow-up to Marty Shevelove’s first book, Too Hard Wrong Spot, veteran sports journalist and racehorse owner Gary Delaney is faced with a dilemma: regroup and look for work in Melbourne or make a fresh start in another city – preferably one with palm trees, warm sunshine and lovelies sunning themselves by the pool.
'He chooses the latter.
'While ex-cons Johnny Pastrami and Frankie “Fingers” Tannenbaum pull off a massive betting plunge, Delaney hits it off with one of his new neighbours but falls for a stunning financial advisor who promptly separates him from his life savings and disappears.
'Can Delaney track her down and recover his lost loot or is he doomed to spend the rest of his days dancing for gold coins on the Cairns Esplanade?' (Publication summary)
