Cirrus@Austlit

'It seemed such a good idea. Lockie, a retired New Zealand schoolteacher, moves to Macleay Island, in Australia's Moreton Bay after the death of his beloved wife. He settles to the subtropical island’s lifestyle and makes friends with the local characters, but his peace is disrupted when he rents the other half of his duplex to an ex-model, Renata, and her seven-year-old son, JJ. 

'After two near fatal incidents Renata convinces Lockie she is being threatened by her ex-partner, retired rugby league superstar Big Joe Hayson, a multi-millionaire who owns The Stud, a Brisbane nightclub. Joe, it appears, wants her and the boy dead. She decides her only hope is to kill him first. 

'Lockie doesn’t like that idea and does his best to help Renata against Big Joe, his two formidable henchmen and the dark underbelly of Brisbane. All he has is courage, cleverness, humour and his belief in justice, but one night, it lands him in The Stud nightclub, and Lockie is fighting for his life.'

Source: publisher's blurb

'The sharks in the water may not be as bad as the sharks on Macleay Island. 

'That’s what Lockie finds when he clashes with hard men and stands in their way. 

'Peter, a hermit mariner, meets the retired Lockie and hours is found by him, murdered. Lockie with his detective ally, Georgia Leah, sets out find why. 

'He unearths a poignant love story between Peter and Lorna, and, with Lorna, becomes such a nuisance to an international, new technology drug smuggling organisation, that the gang takes Lockie and Lorna on the sinister sloop The Red Admiral.  The gang  takes them for their last journey anywhere – except Lockie and Lorna don’t see it that way… 

'Their survival instinct kicks in and with a little help from their friends, mainly Scotty and Georgia… 

'All hell is let loose on the night-time waters of Queensland’s Moreton Bay.'

Source: publisher's blurb

'Neil’s body is found on a sandbank. Murder or…?

'Lockie, retired widower, works with Detective Inspector Georgia Lear again. 

'Another murder… two more attempts … the handsome Mrs Stone is a suspect. Chloe, a London journalist, works on her family history.

'Lockie and Georgia uncover wildlife smuggling, and a plan to inherit a fortune, but, to get the telling evidence, Lockie plays the most dangerous role of his life and survives – narrowly.'

Source: publisher's blurb