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1 y separately published work icon Blood and Ink Brett Adams , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2022 24396681 2022 single work novel crime

'Literature professor Jack Griffen has recently suffered a nervous breakdown. His wife has divorced him and she and their adult daughter have moved to the USA. Into the void steps exchange student Hieronymus Beck, claiming to be the professor’s greatest fan.

'But everything changes when Jack finds Hiero’s list. Five sheets of paper. Five ways to commit a murder.

'His student has told him he’s writing a crime novel, but is that all he is doing? Caught up in his protégé’s dangerous game, the mild-mannered professor finds himself asking how far will he go to save a life. As far as murder? (Publication summary)

1 The Donor Brett Adams , 2014 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Amok : An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction 2014;
1 y separately published work icon Dark Matter Brett Adams , Australia : Brett Adams , 2013 8356487 2013 single work novel mystery fantasy

'Rasputin “Monk” Lowdermilk wanted to end it all. But when he is run down by a car on the way to his suicide, he finds that life is just beginning.

'As he recovers from Chrysler-induced head trauma, he begins to discover strange new abilities. He can draw portraits so precise they look like photographs. He can remember with flawless clarity everything he’s ever seen or heard, no matter how trivial. He can read strangers so well it verges on telepathy.

'But with these gifts come strange visions tinged with menace. And the one thing Rasputin doesn’t know is that his new abilities have been noticed, by ancient and evil forces who recognise what the gifts mean and what they will become. Unfortunately, his new life is only of benefit to them if he’s dead.

'Dark Matter is a cerebral mystery that plays fair – and dares you to solve it.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon Strawman Made Steel Brett Adams , Australia : Brett Adams , 2013 8356446 2013 single work novel fantasy horror

'Janus McIlwraith knows New York City. From the grimy basement bars where the underclass mutter and curse to the gleaming penthouse apartments where the elite plot and control, he's seen it all, and he's never been happy about it. He's a private investigator who works the city the old fashioned way. No internet. No databases. No smartphones.

'Not that he has a choice in the matter.

'Because Janus knows two New York Cities. There's the one with Facebook, The Tonight Show and iPods. And there's the one he enters through the mirror, the one with genetic supermen, skyscraper canons, and a certain subatomic particle that's misbehaving...

'And when McIlwraith takes on the case of the rich boy whose brutalized corpse is found in a dumpster, he little realizes how deep the case will cut―right to his very core, to the place where, like this city, his own soul is split in two.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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