Kevin Baker Kevin Baker i(A123535 works by)
Also writes as: Xu Ning
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Murder at the City Wall Xu Ning , Wyong : Reid Books , 1998 Z1586594 1998 single work novel crime detective
1 1 y separately published work icon The Corpse in the Gold Bikini Kevin Baker , The Junction : Australian Pocket Press , 1996 Z128227 1996 single work novel crime detective

'Whenever I see a girl with a gold bikini, I think of Princess Leia. Here on the Gold Coast, gold bikinis are common, so I think of Princess Leia a lot.

'Eighteen-year-old Olivia Grace has deferred her law degree and ducked out of her friends' gap-year tour of Asia. Instead, she's fulfilling her childhood dream of becoming a private investigator, following in the footsteps of Nancy Drew and Veronica Mars - who taught her everything she knows, including a solid line in quick-quipping repartee, the importance of a handbag full of disguises, and a way of mixing business with inconvenient chemistry.

'Playing Watson to the Sherlock of her childhood friend, detective agency owner Rosco (once the Han Solo to her Princess Leia), Olivia pursues a routine cheating husband case from the glitzy Gold Coast to Insta-perfect Byron Bay, where she faces yoga wars, dirty whale activism, and a guru who's kind of a creep.

'Olivia Grace is a teenage screwball heroine for the #metoo era, and The Girl with the Gold Bikini is a body-positive detective romp, rich with pop-culture pleasures.'  (Publication summary)

1 Too Old for Murder Kevin Baker , 1995 single work novel crime humour
— Appears in: Too Old for Murder 1995; (p. 1-127)
1 y separately published work icon Murder at the Drum Tower Xu Ning , Yass : Whitecross Books , 1994 Z1586591 1994 single work novel crime detective
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