Lugarno

By Peter Corris

Book Overview

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 shaven head, and the pale hand that plucked the mobile from my grasp and threw it away was super-sized. "Hey," I protested. He just stood there, a pace away now--a hundred kilos of bone and muscle in T-shirt and jeans. I had a gun and a tyre iron and I thought I'd need both to make an impression on him, but they were in the car. For now, it was just me.

When it's only 24 hours into a new case and PI Cliff Hardy's already been heavied, you know that the job is going to get his full attention. Cliff has been hired by high-flying consultant Martin Price to find out who's been supplying heroin to Price's teenage daughter--who in turn has got her beautiful young stepmother hooked. The wealthy suburb of Lugarno seems an unlikely hotbed of drug-dealing and corruption, but Cliff is finding out the hard way that crime and violence come calling even at posh waterside addresses.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1760110248
• ISBN13: 9781760110246
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.7"