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Jack Irish doesn't spook too easy. He's had guns pointed at him too many times - more often since he started hiring himself out as a debt collector - and he saves his nerves for the racetrack. So when he receives a phone message from an ex-client begging for help, he's inclined to ignore it...

Winner of the Duncan Lawrie Dagger (formerly the CWA Gold Dagger) for Fiction, 2007
Broken by his last case, homicide detective Joe Cashin has fled the city and returned to his hometown in South Eastern Australia, while his wounds heal and the nightmares fade. His recovery is interrupted when a local man is brutally attacked and left for dead. In the small town, suspicion quickly falls on three young men from the local Aboriginal community - but Cashin's not so sure.

Jack Irish has no shortage of friends: jockeys and journos, lawyers and standover men, people in nameless occupations who aren't in the phone book. These days, though, the only family he sees are Irish men in faded football team photographs on the pub wall.So when Des Connors, the last link to his father, calls to ask for help in the matter of a missing son, Jack is happy to lend a hand. But sometimes prodigal sons go missing for a reason.

John Anselm's a former Beirut hostage; a war correspondent who went to one war too many. A burnt-out case, he's working for a semi-legal Hamburg surveillance firm and trying to come to terms with his past. Then, into his life comes Con Niemand, ex-mercenary and professional survivor. Niemand has stumbled across evidence of a terrible secret and now he's on the run. Against his will, Anselm is plunged into a world of violence, betrayal and death.

Meet Jack Irish, criminal lawyer, debt collector, football lover, turf watcher, trainee cabinetmaker, and the best Australian crime character we've seen in years. When Jack receives a puzzling message from a jailed ex-client, he's too deep in misery over Fitzroy's latest loss to take much notice. Next thing Jack knows, the ex-client's dead and he's been drawn into a life-threatening investigation involving high-level corruption, dark sexual secrets, shonky property deals and murder.

A dark faerie tale anthology featuring eight short stories by well-received and upcoming authors, delivering new faerie tales and dark twists on inspired tales. Follow a young soldier trying to rescue his parents from the clutches of city enforcers, a talented young artist who is given a quill with magical properties, a princess who joins a team destined to rid the world of its hidden evils, and more.

Jack Irish - lawyer, gambler and people finder - is hunting down the villains who hijacked the winnings from his latest betting coup when he is hired by a mystery client to find missing barman Robbie Colbourne. But Robbie turns up dead of a drug overdose.

In ‘Zwart tij’ volg je advocaat en detective Jack Irish in zijn onderzoek om de zoon van Des Connors te traceren. Nadat zoon Gary 60.000 dollar van zijn vader had geleend, was hij plotseling van de aardbodem verdwenen. Tijdens de zoektocht stuit Jack al snel op de invloedrijke miljonair Steven Levesque. Jack vertrouwt hem niet en zijn gevoel wordt bevestigd als hij een schokkende ontdekking doet. Wat heeft Gary met deze steenrijke man te maken en komt Jack er zelf zonder kleerscheuren af? ‘Zwart tij’ is de opvolger van ‘Kwade schulden’ in de Jack Irish reeks.

John Anselm heeft het zwaar voor de kiezen. Na vele bewogen jaren als oorlogsjournalist in Beirut, woont hij weer thuis in Duitsland: getraumatiseerd en overspannen. Ook laat zijn geheugen hem steeds vaker in de steek en zijn familiegeschiedenis achtervolgt hem meer dan hem lief is. Toch raakt hij weer in het gevaarlijke wereldje terecht als hij via zijn werk een ex-huurmoordenaar moet opsporen. Opnieuw zit hij vast in een benarde situatie vol geweld, bedrog en gevaar.

The Cold War is long dead but the trade in deceit and lies is still running hot. In Hamburg, John Anselm is hiding from the ghosts he has left behind in foreign war zones. He spends his days working for a surveillance firm. At night he drinks too much, paranoid about the suspicions he glimpses...