Murder Song
From the award-winning Jon Cleary, a psychopath’s killings converge with organized-crime efforts to wipe out a crooked financier before he talks in this taut, suspenseful addition to the series featuring Australia’s detective-inspector Scobie Malone.
When a sniper kills a classmate of Inspector Scobie Malone, and then attempts to kill another, Scobie begins to see a pattern emerging. Fearing for his family’s safety and forced into hiding with his friend Boru O’Brien, Scobie must track down the the killer before he too becomes a victim.
”'With convincing characterization and a realistic portrayal of Australian life, veteran writer Cleary has produced an absorbing tale” - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
PRAISE FOR JON CLEARY: -
'When the ruminants and the lucre-chasers are growing lichen on library shelves Jon Cleary will continue to be read'LOS ANGELES TIMES -
'Enough plot twists and conspiracy-making ingredients to satisfy the most demanding aficionado of the genre'IRISH TIMES -
”'The business of a novelist is to tell a story. Jon Cleary has that talent in abundance” - SUNDAY EXPRESS
”'The Malone stories come alive through their setting … Cleary’s writing is seamless and his plots imaginative and mature” - MIAMI HERALD
”'Cleary is a national literary institution… If Australia has a crime writer who deserves to be spoken of in the same breath as Ed McBain, Ruth Rendell, and P.D James, then it is Cleary” - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD