Desmond Kelly Desmond Kelly i(A130955 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Coil of Danger Desmond Kelly , Macleay Island : Gumbark Books , 2018 20095866 2018 single work novel crime

'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.'

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1 y separately published work icon Touch of Danger Desmond Kelly , Macleay Island : Gumbark Books , 2017 20095764 2017 single work novel crime

'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.'

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1 y separately published work icon The Lockie Trilogy Desmond Kelly , Macleay Island : Gumbark Books , 2016-2018 20095708 2016 series - author novel crime
1 y separately published work icon Ripple of Danger Desmond Kelly , Macleay Island : Gumbark Books , 2016 20095626 2016 single work novel crime

'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.'

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1 y separately published work icon Death of a Friend Desmond Kelly , Macleay Island : Gumbark Books , 2015 10483410 2015 single work novel crime

In Sydney, when lawyer Richard Catlin lies dead of a stab wound, Karl Landry, a forensic accountant, blames himself for allowing the police to cause him to doubt the integrity of his best and closest friend. He strives to find the truth, learns to trust Detective Inspector Fiona Collins, and traces the paths of art and science fraud, involving paintings by Caravaggio and Mondrian, and the deaths of people ensnared. Those paths lead to the European Mafia and bring Karl Landry to the brink of his own death - from which he is saved by....

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1 Uncle Ross Desmond Kelly , 2009 single work essay
— Appears in: The Best Australian Essays 2009 2009; (p. 106-110)
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