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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Stripped of his investigator's licence and with his appeal denied, Cliff Hardy faces an uncertain future. Then something very personal happens that sends him off doing what he does best - confronting,
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'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
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
Hardy's 40th case finds him bodyguarding a promising politician When Cliff Hardy signs on as a bodyguard for charismatic populist Rory O'Hara, who is about to embark on a campaign of social and politi
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
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
Frank Parker, retired senior policeman and Cliff Hardy's longtime friend, has a problem. A case from early in his career involving two doctors, one of whom was convicted of hiring a hit man to kill t
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
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
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
