Jon Cleary

The time is the last two weeks of peace in the summer of 1939. The place is Berlin, the most brilliantly lit city in Europe....

A nun is found murdered on the steps of the Quality Couch, Sydney’s most expensive house of ill repute....

While on duty near Simla, a handsome British intelligence officer, Clive Farnol, finds a plot to assassinate His Majesty....

As Sydney prepares for its grand role as host of the next Olympic Games, Scobie Malone is confronted with solving a scam that does nothing for the city's image....

In the town of Collamundra, Australia, the corpse of Japanese farm manager, Kenji Sagawa, is found in one of his cotton mill’s threshing machines....

The Hotel Southern Savoy has become the reluctant host to two corpses on a single night - and homicide inspector Scobie Malone knows this investigation will be a nightmare from the moment he arrives....

Australian detective Scobie Malone is asked to investigate what seems like an easy case: Norma Glaze has been strangled in her bedroom and her husband Ron has disappeared....

When local solicitor Will Rockne is found in his car by his wife - shot through the head - it seems a baffling and motiveless murder....

When the Sydney police minister's son falls 20 floors to his death, the politics of murder ripple the city like a boulder into a pool. Caught in the wash is Detective Inspector Scobie Malone....

In the heat of an Australian summer, Inspector Scobie Malone finds the body of a promising informer, Scungy Grime, floating face down in his family's backyard swimming pool....

Forced into hiding and afraid for the safety of his family, Scobie Malone must find a psychopathic murderer before he too is stopped by a killer’s bullet....

In 1966, Scobie Malone investigated the disappearance of Sire Springfellow, head of Australian intelligence. Years later bones are found, and Malone is back on the case....

Scobie Malone's job as a homicide cop is to try to keep murder at bay....

It's a special occasion Down Under and the notoriously frugal Inspector Malone is taking his family to dinner at one of Sydney's finest Chinese restaurants....

The time has come for Scobie Malone to leave the homicide and serial offenders unit of the Sydney police, and his last investigation could be the most bizarre....

It begins one rainy dawn: Orville Brame, president of the American Bar Association, is found shot through the heart, slumped in a monorail, silently circling downtown Sydney....

Cleo Spearfield, daughter of famous Australian senator Sylvester Spearfield, travels to Vietnam as a war correspondent in order to prove her own aptitude and independence....