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Geoffrey Mcgeachin - Charlie Berlin
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The Diggers Rest Hotel: In 1947, two years after witnessing the death of a young Jewish woman in Poland, Charlie Berlin has rejoined the police force a different man.
Sent to investigate a spate of robberies in rural Victoria, he soon discovers that World War II has changed even the most ordinary of places and people. An ex-bomber pilot and former POW, Berlin is struggling to fit back in: grappling with post-traumatic stress disorder, the ghosts of his dead crew and his futile attempts to numb the pain.
When Berlin travels to Albury-Wodonga to track down the gang behind the robberies, he suspects he's a problem cop being set up to fail. Taking a room at the Diggers Rest Hotel in Wodonga, he sets about solving a case that no one else can – with the help of feisty, ambitious journalist Rebecca Green and rookie constable Rob Roberts, the only cop in town he can trust.
Then the decapitated body of a young girl turns up in a back alley, and Berlin's investigations lead him ever further through layers of small-town fears, secrets and despair.
The first Charlie Berlin mystery takes us into a world of secret alliances and loyalties – and a society dealing with the effects of a war that changed men forever.

Stuart Littlemore - Harry Currie
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Harry Curry: Counsel of Choice: UGLY. IRASCIBLE. INTOLERANT. CLEVER. The brilliant first instalment in a compelling new series to rival Rumpole from well-known QC Stuart Littlemore. Ugly. Irascible. Intolerant. Clever.
From one of our sharpest legal minds comes a brilliant new character, Harry Curry-scion of the establishment and criminal defender extraordinaire. A class traitor, some say. When Harry's robust advocacy leads to his suspension for professional misconduct, he teams up reluctantly with Arabella Engineer, an English barrister of Indian descent, struggling for a foothold at the Sydney bar. together, they wreak havoc in criminal trials involving drug-dealing, terrorism, murder and more.
But can their professional relationship survive when personal matters intervene?
Is Harry truly fated to live and work alone? HARRY CURRY: COUNSEL OF CHOICE is an insightful-and always engaging-romp through a fascinating segment of society, and an exciting debut by a talented insider.

Shane Maloney: Murray Whelan
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Stiff: True believer Murray Whelan makes his debut in Shane Maloney's first thriller set among the ethnic feuds, union machinations and sexual politics of his city's working class heartland.

The fiddle at the Pacific Pastoral meat-packing works was a nice little earner for all concerned until Herb Gardiner reported finding a body in number 3 chiller.

Enter Murray Whelan, minder, fixer and general dogsbody for the Minister of Industry. Between playing off party factions and pursuing the kohl-eyed Ayisha, it's all in a day's work for Murray to hose down the situation at Pacific Pastoral. Then the lairy V8 turns up. And after that, it gets personal. Because don't you just hate it when somebody tries to kill you and you don't know who or why?

Bound to be plenty more ....