This collection of stories is about relationships breaking and those already broken. Each story explores the emotions of a relationship: heartache, endurance, naivety, bitterness. These are tales of love, messy, poignant, nasty and real.

What happens when the keynote speaker at an important arts festival is found dead?Welcome to modern Melbourne, UNESCO City of Literature, home to arts festivals galore as well as the internationally famous Melbourne Cup horse race. But the Imagine Festival, held in late August, has more surprises in store than the Festival Director planned when he discovers Deborah Dangerfield's lifeless body upstairs at the Malthouse Theatre.Join Senior Sergeant Brendan O'Leary, a family m...

A half-naked body of a girl is discovered on a driveway. A young man researching the defection to Australia of the Hungarian Olympic team in 1956 is having trouble with his love life. An old man living alone with his cat discovers hidden clues...Set in Melbourne in the 1950s and the present, this crime novel was inspired by an unsolved murder in Mt Martha in 1953. Historically accurate in the details, it blends social commentary with character development and resolution.

It's summer in Melbourne, the city is sweltering, and the first Grand Slam of the tennis season is in full swing. While fans cheer courtside, Detective Senior Sergeant Brendan O'Leary is far from the action, knee-deep in a chilling case that starts with two bodies buried on a derelict farm by the Loddon River. When a third is found in an abandoned mine shaft, O'Leary knows this is no coincidence-but proving it in the scorching heat and dusty silence of the countryside is another matter.

In Ethiopia, Yuvi dreams of a land where water flows, bread is plentiful, and candy grows on trees. But it is only after a difficult journey that she arrives in Israel, where it appears that her dreams have come true.