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Dorothy Johnston
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Dorothy Johnston grew up in Geelong, in Victoria and has lived in Canberra, where her books are set, since the 1970's.
She is the author of eight books including three 'Sandra Mahoney' mysteries.
Full Series List in Order
Sandra Mahoney
1 - The Trojan Dog (Mar-2005)2 - The White Tower (Sep-2006)
A Sea-Change Mystery
1 - Through a Camel's Eye (Feb-2017)2 - The Swan Island Connection (Aug-2017)
Book List in Order: 13 titles
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The Trojan Dog
- Mar-2005
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I should ask your department's accountant whether he's missing nine hundred thousand bucks This is the anonymous message that changes Sandra Mahoney's life After taking time off to raise her young son, Sandra Mahoney is nervously re-entering th...
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The White Tower
- Sep-2006
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A mild young mans addiction to a role-playing internet game has led to his death. Disturbingly, his suicide is a bizarre echo of his chilling execution in the game; his only note a digital mirror image of his own death. But where do blame and respons...
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A Swift River Anthology
- 2011
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From their graves in Quabbin Park Cemetery, imagined residents... of the former towns of Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, and Prescott, Massachusetts, reminisce about their lives in the Lost Valley before their towns were flooded to create a drinking water ...
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The House at Number 10
- Aug-2012
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Sophie Harper is abandoned by her husband and left with a four - year - old daughter to support. She finds work in an old house in Canberra that is being used as a brothel. She falls under the house's eerie, yet strangely comforting spell, and discov...
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Eight Pieces on Prostitution
- Jun-2013
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The stories in Eight Pieces on Prostitution span the whole of Dorothy Johnston's writing life and includes her first published story, The Man Who Liked to Come with the News, which Frank Moorhouse chose for his 1983 anthology, The Stat...
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The Fourth Season
- Nov-2013
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When the body of young female environmental activist and science student, Laila Fanshaw, is found floating in Lake Burley Griffin, private investigator Sandra Mahoney's life is turned upside down, not least because her partner, Ivan, was in love with...
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Through a Camel's Eye
- Feb-2017
- / Law Enforcement
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'Still, he looked for hoof prints, glad there was nobody to laugh at him for doing so. He shaded his eyes and squinted at a dark object, half covered in sand, then began to walk towards it. He should should have been wearing sunglasses to protect his...
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The Swan Island Connection
- Aug-2017
- / Police Procedural
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All children were a mixture of innocence and guile, Chris Blackie thought, but the innocence had been squashed out of Boby McGilvrey unnaturally young.A shocking murder rocks the quiet coastal Victorian town of Queenscliff, a place where police work ...
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Gerard Hardy's Misfortune
- Nov-2019
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According to local legend, the historic Royal hotel in the Victorian coastal town of Queenscliff is haunted. Having served as both a mental asylum and a morgue in the early days it could hardly fail to be, but a bizarre murder in the hotel's basement...
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The Lodeman
- Jun-2021
- / Cozy Mystery
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Pilot boats are a fixture of the coastal Victorian town of Queenscliff, darting into the treacherous Rip in all weathers to shepherd big ships into and out from the Port of Melbourne. Many crewmembers have been lost in the line of duty, but when the ...
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