A missing girl, drugs, yachts, the sex trade, and a cold trail that leads from Sydney to Norfolk Island, Byron Bay, and Coolangatta. The police suspect the father, Gerard Fonteyn OA, a wealthy busines
Is Sydney gun city? It certainly seems so when Cliff Hardy is hired by entrepreneur and one-time pistol-shooting champion Timothy Greenhall to investigate the violent death of his troubled son. Soon H
Cliff Hardy returns to the Australian criminal underworld in a short novel and six stories focused on the private investigatorGareth Greenway wasn't all he seemed, but Cliff Hardy was used to that. Wh
Cliff Hardy returns in this collection of short stories focused on the private investigatorA client falls from the 20th story of a building; a rock star goes missing; an erotic Mongol scroll vanishes;
PI Cliff Hardy needs a nice smooth job, something to pay the bills—and keep his glass filled—but this job is anything but smoothCliff Hardy is stone broke, which makes it hard to resist a job from the
In the 40th Cliff Hardy book, Hardy plays a cool hand as a decades-old crime resurfaces and old scores are settledIs Sydney gun city? It certainly seems so when Cliff Hardy is hired by entrepreneur an
Hardy's 23rd case finds him in the throws of corruption, murder, and a missing girl: routine for Cliff Hardy—except this time it's personal Cliff Hardy is stunned to get a phone call from his ex-wife
Drug-dealing and corruption are at the center of Cliff Hardy's 24th case I was about to punch in the number when a man loomed up beside me. When I say loomed I mean loomed—he was tall and wide with a
Cliff Hardy is called to investigate the death of a prominent athlete's girlfriend, in his 22nd caseThey called him the Black Prince. Southwestern Uni's top athlete, Clinton seemed to have it all: he
Cliff Hardy's 19th case—one of his grittiest yet The Washington Club takes Cliff Hardy to the edge. He might never work again. Claudia Fleischman is beautiful, rich, intelligent . . . and has just bee
Even when he's not involved in a major case, PI Cliff Hardy's life is far from routine. The 20th Cliff Hardy mystery. In these stories a whistleblower is himself betrayed, a son turns against his fath
Is a mutilated photograph the key to Hardy's 15th case?The woman was dangerous, even over the phone. Cliff Hardy knew he should have listened to his instincts when he first met Paula Wilberforce. Inst
The 16th Cliff Hardy mysteryThis collection of stories finds Cliff Hardy in his usual milieu of inner Sydney mixing with the good, the bad, and the quirky as he works on his cases. With his wisecracks
Hardy's 18th case Cliff Hardy is flattered to be offered the job as head of security at the new Sydney casino. But the thought of office hours and wearing a suit put him off and he refuses in favor of
The 13th Cliff Hardy mystery Someone's trying to cancel Cliff Hardy's license, and he needs to find out why. He also needs to work out why the case of the missing schoolteacher Brian Madden keeps lead
Hardy's 14th hardboiled case When Oscar Bach's body is found crushed under rubble, his death was classified as another tragic statistic of the earthquake. So how could he have been seen alive five min
Hardy's sixth nail-biting case Cliff Hardy is at the party to look after the paintings and throw out the drunks—gently. But there he meets Helen Broadway, who interests him; and Paul Guthrie, who want
When the battle-scarred but indefatigable PI loses all his dough to an unscrupulous financial advisor, he has to follow the money trail deep into Sydney's underbelly—the territory of big money and ben
When the battle-scarred but indefatigable PI loses all his dough to an unscrupulous financial advisor, he has to follow the money trail deep into Sydney's underbelly?the territory of big money and ben
Drawing on crime-scene photos, witness testimony, trial transcripts, and newspaper articles, this novel blends the author's imagination with a true crime case. William Cyril Moxley was hanged at Sydne
He's semi-retired and de-licensed, but Cliff Hardy is once again fighting for justice and tracking down evil when his cousin is brutally murdered?did the shotgun blast find its target, or was it meant
Cliff Hardy trades the mean streets of Sydney for the Illawarra escarpment, a rugged undeveloped area of Australia, in this latest hard-boiled detective novel. First hired by the daughter of the late,
A missing girl, drugs, yachts, the sex trade and a cold trail that leads from Sydney to Norfolk Island, Byron Bay and Coolangatta. The police suspect the father, Gerard Fonteyn OA, a wealthy businessm
Legendary PI Cliff Hardy has reached an age when the obituaries have become part of his reading, and one triggers his memory of a case in the late 1980s. Back then Sydney was awash with colorful chara
