Penguin Books Australia

Hal Challis is in trouble at home and abroad: carpeted by the boss for speaking out about police budget cuts; missing his lover, Ellen Destry, who is overseas on a study tour.

But there's plenty to keep his mind off his problems. A rapist in a police uniform stalks Challis's Peninsula beat, there is a serial armed robber headed in his direction and a home invasion that's a little too...

Katie Blasko, aged nine, has disappeared. Ellen fears abduction-the Peninsula is sleepy, picturesque, prosperous, but she suspects the existence of a paedophile ring. Superintendent McQuarrie scoffs: the girl came from the Seaview Estate, notorious for broken...

Detective Inspector Hal Challis is up against it. The media are demanding to know what he plans to do about the killer, his colleagues are either giving...

When hordes of eighteen-year-old schoolies descend on the Mornington Peninsula to celebrate the last of their exams, the overstretched police of Waterloo expect reports of party drugs and underage drinkers.  Maybe even drink-spiking and sexual assault.

They don't count on a brutal bashing that attracts political attention.  The victim is connected, and now Detective Inspector Hal Challis...

WYATT'S BEEN AWAY. NOW HE'S BACK.
That's as much as anyone really knows about him. The rest is rumour, the kind that makes people wary. And that's fine with Wyatt.
Eddie Oberin thinks he knows enough about Wyatt to make him an offer. A jewel heist— inside information courtesy of Lydia Stark, Eddie's much smarter ex-wife. The target is an international courier of stolen items: Alain Le Page.
Wyatt...

Two classic Wyatt novels in one volume

PORT VILA BLUES

Wyatt snatches the cash easily enough. He bypasses the alarm system, eludes the cops, but can he make it safely back to his bolthole in Hobart?

Port Vila Blues is Wyatts fifth heist, this time leading him to a reckoning far from home.

THE FALLOUT

The Fallout takes off where Port Vila Blues left Wyatt: on a boat with policewoman Liz Redding and...

Wyatt's been away.  Now he's back.  That's as much as anyone really knows about him.  The rest is rumour, the kind that makes people wary.  And that's fine with Wyatt.

Eddie Oberin thinks he knows enough about Wyatt to make him an offer.  A jewel heist - inside information courtesy of Lydia Stark, Eddie's much smarter ex-wife.  The target is an intentional courier of stolen...