2007, Text Publishing Melbourne Australia
Big fan of the Murray Whelan series. Set in Melbourne with identifiable public characters. Less gory than the previous, and less personally dangerous for Murray. He is an attractive character; sarcastic, good, Labour politician backbencher. I like his developing relationship with Red, his son, now 17 / 18. I like his bumbling pursuit of Andrea-Lanie.
"Lanie's may not have been the face that launched a thousand ships, but it definitely floated my little rubber duckie. She was cheerful, sardonic and fetchingly full-figured. Naturally, she was already taken.
Hubby had picked her up after one of the first classes, their pubescent daughter in tow. He was dopey-looking dork, reeking of academia."p.29
Not much of a mystery, more of a satire on local politics, about the cross and double cross, the improbable branch stacking election plots. But best of all is travelling through Melbourne's streets, in this case Sydney Road, Broadmeadows, and Clifton Hill, with funny man Murray.
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