How a famous cold case, a murderous fire and a quest for justice finally brought down one of Australia’s worst killers. “He takes you in the middle of the night, like an angel, and you’re…
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Jacks and Jokers: Three Crooked Kings, Book 2
The gripping second instalment of the rise – and spectacular fall – of one man, an entire state and generations of corruption. ‘The message was powerfully clear. If you threatened the harmony of the Joke,…
All Fall Down: Three Crooked Kings, Book 3
The gripping finale to Three Crooked Kings and Jacks and Jokers brings to a close Matthew Condon’s best-selling true-crime trilogy. In 1983, the soon-to-be-knighted Police Commissioner Terry Lewis continues to turn a blind eye to…
The Pillow Fight
A brilliant, shocking story of domestic violence, with a twist. The gripping story of Luke, an easy-going deep-sea diver who likes to please everyone, and the strong-willed, beautiful Charlotte with whom he falls in love….
Three Crooked Kings
Journalist and novelist Matthew Condon has crafted the definitive account—a searing story of greed, crime, and corruption—of an era that changed Queensland society; an impact that reverberates across the country to this day. In 1949,…
A Night at the Pink Poodle
Glitz and glamour, greed and sleaze, fall and redemption. It’s all happening on the Gold Coast. Icarus is a penthouse salesman on the Gold Coast. In his early thirties and at the top of his…
The Trout Opera
The Trout Opera is a stunning epic novel that encompasses twentieth-century Australia. Opening with a Christmas pageant on the banks of the Snowy River in 1906 and ending with the opening ceremony of the Sydney…
The Toe Tag Quintet
The adventures of a former Sydney detective from 21 Division who, in his prime, collared some of the most murderous criminals in Australian history yet, on retiring to the Gold Coast in Queensland, along with…
Little Fish Are Sweet
Little Fish Are Sweet is Matthew Condon’s extraordinary personal account of writing the Three Crooked Kings trilogy. When Condon first interviewed disgraced former police commissioner Terry Lewis, he had no idea that it would be…
The Motorcycle Cafe
The Motorcycle Cafe is a mosaic portrait of a fascinating man going through the motions of an ordinary life. There was no funeral for my son. I remember it was just a small service in…
Murder Most Abstract
A recently retired NSW copper, on the Gold Coast hunting for his retirement property in which to enjoy his twilight years, finds himself passing an old foe, Boltcutter, from the Kings Cross Underworld, as he…
Fear, Faith and Hope: The Long Wet Summer of 2010-2011
Fear, faith and hope – just three of the emotions felt during the long, wet summer of 2010-2011. The floods and cyclones of that wet season produced a natural disaster which will continue to influence…
