Autumn Maze (Scobie Malone #11) by Jon Cleary

For Scobie Malone of Sydney's homicide squad, autumn is like any other season - the killing still goes on...

Like a boulder into a pool, when the Police Minister's son falls twenty floors to his death, the ripples spread out to make waves. Caught in the wash is Detective Inspector Scobie Malone. He thinks he is immune to politics, but is soon engulfed in its consequences: the Police Minister applies pressure a millionaire banker becomes less than his public image; a hit man goes about his workaday killing; and three of Sydney's most powerful women give Scobie a glimpse of how life there really operates. Finally, when he is forced to accept aid from his one-time enemy, top crim Jack Aldwych, now retired but still ruthless, Malone learns once again that when politics and money are arrayed against him, the odds are never even.

Autumn Maze is the third of the four seasons of Scobie Malone, following Dark Summer and Bleak Spring. Together they will form Jon Cleary's view of life today in Australia's biggest city, told with the dry wit and eye for character and place we have come to expect from this accomplished author.

Genres: Mystery - Australia - Crime - Detective
Condition: Very good
Published: 1994 by HarperCollinsPublishers
Pages: 292
ISBN: 0002245426
Weight: 585g