Peter Cotton Peter Cotton i(A2669 works by)
Gender: Male
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Peter Cotton has worked as a media advisor to federal cabinet ministers and as a reporter with the ABC (including foreign correspondent).

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y separately published work icon Dead Cat Bounce Carlton North : Scribe , 2013 5983500 2013 single work novel thriller crime

'A federal election campaign is thrown into chaos when a popular government minister goes missing and then turns up dead on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin.

'With Detective Darren Glass and the Australian Federal Police on the case, the investigation into the minister’s murder quickly becomes entangled in a game of high-stakes politics. And all the while, the body count mounts.

'Glass’s suspects include some of the most powerful people in the land. With the nation in shock and wanting answers fast, Glass has to negotiate a murky world of shifting allegiances, half-truths, and finger pointing, where everyone has a motive for murder.

'And no one is safe — not even the prime minister. As election day nears, Glass risks everything for a breakthrough in the case, and his life is soon hanging by a thread. But if he thought he’d hit rock bottom, he was wrong …' (Publication summary)

2014 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing Best First Novel
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