The Coast Road (Cliff Hardy series) - Softcover

Corris, Peter

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9781741143843: The Coast Road (Cliff Hardy series)

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ISBN 10: 1741143845 ISBN 13: 9781741143843

Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 2005

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Cliff Hardy trades the mean streets of Sydney for the Illawarra escarpment, a rugged undeveloped area of Australia, in this latest hard-boiled detective novel. First hired by the daughter of the late, wealthy Frederick Farmer to investigate his mysterious and fiery death, Hardy is then called in on a second case—the disappearance of the young daughter of Marisha Karatsky, an exotic, dark-eyed interpreter who gets under Hardy's thick skin. Questionable insurance agents and feral bikers round out the colorful cast as Hardy battles through personal turmoil on the road to justice.

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About the Author:

Peter Corris is the author of the Cliff Hardy detective novels. He is also the author of A Round of Golf: 18 Holes with Peter Corris and the coauthor of Fred Hollows: An Autobiography.

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After a couple of decades, your typical mystery series tends to get a little stale. But there are exceptions: Westlake's Dortmunder novels (35 years), McBain's 87th Precinct series (49 years), and Corris' Cliff Hardy series, which is now at the quarter-century mark and still going strong. Unlike the oft-reprinted novels of Westlake and McBain, however, Australian Corris' work is not widely available in the U.S. The publication of this representative Hardy novel should help change that. In The Coast Road, a wealthy man dies, and his daughter asks Sydney PI Hardy to find out whether it really was an accident, as the police have ruled. Does the daughter know something, or is she merely jealous of her father's second wife, who now stands to inherit a fortune? Before he can get a handle on the case, another one drops into his lap, and this one, involving a missing person, hits Cliff on an emotional as well as a professional level. The novel is sharply written in the classic gumshoe tradition, and it generates enough energy to keep readers plowing forward. David Pitt
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