Шейн Мэлоуни — новинки

Now pushing fifty, Murray Whelan is spinning his wheels in parliament—a toothless cog in Labor’s stalled political machine.

But when the remains of a long-lost union official are found in dried-up Lake Nillahcootie, Murray soon gets sucked into some murky waters. For a start, it seems that his old mate Charlie Talbot was implicated. But Charlie has just dropped dead of a coronary occlusion in the dining room of the Mildura Grand Hotel, leaving behind a lot of unanswered questions. The press are sniffing around and Labor's enemies are lining up for a free kick. Then there's the blackmail attempt.

And as if that wasn’t enough, there’s an ALP preselection going pear-shaped.

Eagerly awaited by his legion of fans, Shane Maloney's sixth Murray Whelan mystery sees the clown prince of the true believers in vintage form.

Murray Whelan thinks the everyday life of a political advisor is complicated enough: but now there are intimations of intrigue among the party powerful and his ex-wife is mounting a custody battle over his beloved son. So when you throw in a Turk snap-frozen in a local meat plant, drugs planted under the bed, fascist funeral rites, a killer car and blood-sucking parasites, things are suddenly spinning wildly out of control. That's when red-hot Ayisha knocks on the door..

Summer in the city. Murray Whelan is in the undergrowth of the Botanic Gardens having a romantic encounter with the delicious Salina Fleet. Meanwhile, across the park, the body of a disgruntled artist is being fished out of the public art gallery's ornamental moat. Whelan, political spin doctor and artless lover, must ensure there is no fallout for his boss, and in the process stumbles upon a scam to swindle the tax payer, a forgery racket and three beautiful women. As Whelan is drawn ever deeper into this tangled web, his childhood nemesis lurks menacingly on the edge of the action, and people are dropping like flies ...