A Hal Challis Investigation: Snapshot (Series #3) (Paperback)

from arubabookwoman

Psychologist Janine McQuarrie is shot and killed in front of her young daughter in an apparently random incident. It turns out that she is the daughter-in-law of Police Superintendent McQuarrie. It also turns out that she had recently been coerced by her husband into participating into some mate-...

from AnnieMod

The third Hal Challis novel opes with the team in somewhat of a disarray - Hal is grieving for Kitty, his wife and Tessa (all for various reasons and at least Tessa is still alive), Ellen's is getting progressively worse at home, Tankard is back from a 6 months off (and shattered and weird is the...

from kerns222

Rename it "Dead Couples." Couples swinging, couples backbiting, couples robbing, couples jealous, and one couple doing some whacking, mafia-style. All this around the central backstory: head detective almost done in by errant wife and police Sarg lover (way back before the series started).With a ...

from PhilipJHunt

This is a straightforward police procedural. There's a crime. We know something about it that the detectives don't, but there are other things none of us know. We follow the detectives while they solve it, diverting occasionally into the background of their fraught lives and relationships, not al...

from richardderus

Third outing in the Hal Challis series of Australia-set crime novels. I was taken by the crimes in this book, their casually brutal execution (!) and their grimdark motivation...greed. That said, there wasn't one victim of whom I did not think, "about damned time" or "yeah, well..." which to me m...