Inspector Scobie Malone struggles to cope with the serious illness of his wife while investigating the murder of Orville Brame, a prominent American lawyer found shot to death on the Sydney, Australia, monorail, and uncovering an international web of betrayal and greed.
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A prominent American lawyer is found murdered on a monorail during a conference in Australia, involving the local trial inspector in a complex series of betrayals and discoveries just as he's also trying to cope with his wife's newly-found cancer. Cleary provides an excellent novel of suspense and many surprising twists of plot. -- Midwest Book Review
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Australian Mystery intrigues,
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This review is from: Winter Chill: A Scobie Malone Mystery (Hardcover)
Jon Cleary has been writing books for centuries, seemingly, and this book (published in the early 90s) lists 41 previous books. He's probably best known in the states for having written High Road to China, which was made into a Tom Selleck movie. In Australia, he's much better known (so I'm told) and has a large following. He writes suspense, some military novels, and a long and prolific series of detective novels with a main character who's Sydney's chief homicide inspector. This book, Winter Chill, is one of those books, and Scobie Malone, the main character, has a real plateful in this book.First, he's got a convention of a thousand American lawyers in town, and the president of the organization they all belong to gets murdered in the night, bizarrely placed in a monorail that mindlessly runs around the part repeatedly. As soon as they begin to sort out the first killing, Sydney's finest are confronted by a second one, apparently connected but they can't tell how. And on top of that, Malone has personal problems at home that distract him even further. Cleary is a very good writer. The stories he does are intelligent, and there are usually characters in them who are interesting, and complex. His style of writing is a bit strange: he follows not only Malone, but some of the other characters, and bounces back and forth between them at will. This gives you insight into what they are thinking, but some readers may find it a bit disconcerting. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and will now look for others.
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