Silence can be the perfect murder weapon — but only if no one is listening.Professor Alistair Abernathy is found dead in his private library. The scene suggests a burglary gone wrong: violence, disorder, and a missing first edition. The police close ranks quickly.His widow does not.Drawn from his quiet life on Phillip Island, former criminal barrister and art restorer Leroy Cunningworth is asked to look aga...

Great art never tells the whole truth.It edits. It cleans. It lies beautifully.When Jacques-Louis David’s ***The Death of Marat***arrives in Melbourne for a prestigious international exhibition, retired barrister and art restorer Leroy Cunningworth is summoned for a discreet, off-record consultation. Something is wrong with the masterpiece — not a flaw visible to the public eye, but a disturbance buried deep in the pigment....

The real race is run before the race.When billionaire racing magnate Arthur Pendleton is found dead in the steam room of Melbourne’s most exclusive private club, it looks like a tragic heart attack. But a 14-second security blackout and a strange ultrasonic spike on his smartwatch tell a different story.Four days later, his Cup jockey is found dead in a spa pool.Two men. Two steam-filled rooms. One pattern.As the Melbourne Cup approaches, retired barrister a...

When the Grand Final ends in a draw, Melbourne becomes a city in limbo.Then the unthinkable happens: Collingwood coach Alistair Finch is found dead in his locked office at the MCG—strangled with his own team scarf.With the press circling and the AFL desperate to control the narrative before the replay, former prosecutor Jack Flint calls in the one man who can hear what others miss: Phillip Island investigator and art-restorer Leroy Cunningworth.The crime scene offer...

The real race is run before the race.When billionaire racing magnate Arthur Pendleton is found dead in the steam room of Melbourne’s most exclusive private club, it looks like a tragic heart attack. But a 14-second security blackout and a strange ultrasonic spike on his smartwatch tell a different story.Four days later, his Cup jockey is found dead in a spa pool.Two men. Two steam-filled rooms. One pattern.As the Melbourne Cup approaches, retired barrister a...

A billionaire built his empire on foundations of stone.Now one stone has become his epitaph.When Alistair Petrides is found dead in his study at his remote You Yangs estate, the scene appears brutally simple — a fall, a family heirloom, a troubled son with fingerprints on the murder weapon.But nothing about the Petrides family is simple.Called to the estate by an uneasy barrister, former criminal barrister turned investigator Leroy Cunningworth

In the golden light of dawn on Phillip Island, art restorer Leroy Hamilton reveals hidden truths for a living. By midday, he is chasing one that someone desperately wants to keep buried.Leroy Hamilton has spent sixty-three years learning patience. As a former barrister turned master art restorer, he understands the delicate art of knowing what to remove and what to leave behind. But when a celebrated J.M.W. Turner painting is stolen from the supposedly impenetrable Hamilton family ...

The roar of the engines. The scent of victory. The perfect place to hide a murder.When a champion F1 engineer is found dead at his desk during qualifying at the Australian Grand Prix, the official verdict is heart attack. But retired barrister Leroy Cunningworth—present as a telemetry consultant—reads the data differently. The chemical sheen on the keyboard. The vial on the floor. The anomaly in the climate control logs. Someone has killed Dr. Aris Thorne, and they...

The Phillip Island Detective60 International Mystery & Suspense Stories******583 pages in length.Crime no longer hides in the shadows.It operates in boardrooms, across borders, and behind screens.But its motives remain stubbornly human.My name is Leroy Cunningworth. I am a recently retired criminal barrister from the Melbourne Bar, now devot...

A retired barrister turned art restorer arrives in Venice to recover a stolen diamond—only to discover the crime is a decoy, the grieving widow is the architect, and the truth sinks slower than the city itself.Leroy Cunningworth, retired barrister and fine art restorer, arrives in Venice with his partner Jack Flint to investigate the theft of Le Bât—a three-million-euro diamond taken from Isabella Marinetti during a private viewing at Palazzo Grassi. The diamond's base con...

Some crimes are committed in the open.Others are designed.When a seemingly minor anomaly surfaces in a high-profile investigation, retired barrister and art restorer Leroy Cunningworth senses a deeper intelligence at work. The evidence doesn’t point to chaos or impulse, but to structure — a mind shaping events from the shadows.As Leroy follows the trail from Phillip Island to the inner sanctums of wealth and influen...

When three apparently unconnected events break on the same morning — a senator murdered in Washington, a massacre in Berlin, an old man quietly killed in a Munich nursing home — retired barrister and art restorer Leroy Cunningworth sees what others miss: a composition, not chaos.Drawn to Vienna by his old ASIO contact Jack Flint, Leroy meets Georg Miller, a journalist who has spent eighteen months tracing whispers of a rebuilt ODESSA network — the Nazi escape organisation that neve...