Cirrus@Austlit

'Something big is about to happen in the eastern Mediterranean; potentially a crime against humanity. It will be soon, and in many places but the target and the means are far from clear. Emma Jazy is a twenty-nine-year-old Swiss agent with IIB, the Netherlands-based International Investigations Bureau. IIB’s brief is to obtain court-admissible evidence about criminals operating across international borders. It is 2013. Can IIB get inside the mind of the ageing former Irish revolutionary, Padraic Hennessy, to sift through a complex fear campaign and unlock a criminal plan? For Emma, it is also personal. Hennessy’s involvement with her family goes back decades, long before her birth. From Ireland, to Cyprus, Croatia, Lebanon, Germany and Israel, to a gripping climax near Lake Geneva in Switzerland, 'The Run' goes inside the psyche of the revolutionary fighter … the willingness and need to kill or die for a cause.' (Publication summary)

'Searching for Siobhan, on the surface, is a story about a Queensland high-school teacher, Harry Boyd, searching for his missing lodger. But that expands into a geo-political crime mystery of global potential – due to a wealthy man’s ego. It is a tale about trust, façades, the abuse of power and society looking away.

'Set in the Brisbane of 2009, Harry is a mathematics teacher whose Irish-reporter tenant, Siobhan Doyle, disappears in puzzling circumstances. He reluctantly becomes the amateur detective to find her.

'Harry struggles with the apparent inaction of the police and employs his own private investigators: local sleuth, Mike Grant; and, on Grant’s recommendation, an up-market Sydney PI, Jane Winston, who introduces him to the big end of town.

'It is the confident attractive Winston who invites Harry to Sydney to meet a wealthy investment consultant, Geoffrey Bryson. This opens a whole new awareness of high-level corporate crime and the activities of Brisbane-based global entrepreneur, Basil Stannard. The elephant in the room is the subterfuge around Stannard’s multi-billion-dollar visionary project for the nation.

'It is Harry’s skill with mathematics that eventually resolves the dangerous mystery.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'The year is 2030. The population of the world is well over 8 billion. Someone has sabotaged all the silicon-based electronics on the planet. No modern technology is working – no phones, no computers, no navigation systems, no Internet, no television and there is minimal distribution of food – the world, as we know it, is grinding to a halt.

'Arthur Blair, the eighty-two-year-old retired director of the Netherlands-based International Investigations Bureau (IIB), is back in this spell-binding thriller. Can he solve the mystery, expose the culprits and lift this dystopian scenario?

'This is a story of how vulnerable any society can be when control is given away to powerful, faceless people. But it is also a tale of how a vigilant few can bring the sunshine back into the world. 

'Roller Coaster gives you a glimpse of a potential future. You may not like what you see. What can you do now to make sure that future never happens?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Cambridge academic, Dr Spencer Avery, arrives in Toowoomba in 2008, both to flee a strained romance in England and to bring his expertise to ‘the colonies’. His arrogant preconception is challenged by the wit and idiosyncrasies of rural Queensland. But, behind the new experiences, danger lurks.

'Olga Davidenko is a retired Russian army officer, seeking redemption with the son she had abandoned decades before. International criminals are hunting her knowledge but illness is preventing her remembering.

'What secrets could a Russian grandmother be hiding? Street-people and Aboriginal Elders play a major role in helping the police resolve a threatening scenario; while the academic Spencer becomes a reluctant hero, a catalyst to resolving a potential catastrophe.

'But has it all been set-up? Is this strange Australian adventure unfolding just by chance? Is Spencer a passenger in an intrigue far beyond his comprehension – a pawn being moved by grand masters?

'A tangled web holds the secret to an exciting adventure set in the peaceful landscape of country Queensland.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Alfredo (Fred) de Faino uses his great-uncle’s coded diary to chat his girlfriend, Julia Tsai, at their Rockhampton high school – and a whole two-year-long intrigue opens up across Queensland, Singapore, Scotland and New Zealand. The twisting story-line unravels a painful mystery of lost Scottish children; it searches for World War 2 loot hidden in a Central Queensland Aboriginal burial ground; and it solves the conundrum of a Malay artefact called the Suci Kancil. All the parts of the story are connected, weaving like the strands of plaited hair, to the climax.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.