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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books
  • First Book:
    July 2011
  • Latest Book:
    August 2015
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Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • The Fires and the Bullets

    A seemingly accidental gas explosion destroys a suburban house. However, when Kroupa and Hendrych arrive on the scene their investigation leads them to two rival bikie gangs and a bloody feud, seemingly without end. As the death toll rises, the pa...

  • The Mystery of the 'E' String

    A mysterious death leads Kroupa and Hendrych to the hallowed halls of a music academy. Could a love of music hide a darker passion for murder? As they delve deeper in the lives of the students and the teachers, our intrepid duo uncover a web of de...

  • The Seaside Clinic

    Kroupa and Hendrych face their toughest case yet when patients at a psychiatric hospital begin to die. Going undercover, Hendrych checks into the clinic. However, with his sidekick on the inside, Kroupa begins to fear for his friend's sanity...

  • Who Killed Don

    When Kroupa and Hendrych investigate the death of an Italian crime boss, the trail leads to Venice, where they dredge up deadly secrets from its murky waters. However, the hunter soon becomes the hunted, while following a lead to La Paz, in their...

  • The Lovers' Crime

    An unexpected commission to cover a wedding for a community paper leads Hendrcyh and Kroupa to murder. In the depths of Jewish tradition they uncover a very unconventional menage a quatred and, as they become more and more entangled in a web of in...

  • The Junzi

    Kroupa and Hendrych go to the theatre! In their first full-length stage play, our intrepid duo go deeper than ever before while investigating a suspicious death, which leads them to the the Chinese underworld. However, while all the clues point to...

  • Tales of an Uneven Mind

  • The Blue Mountains Secret

    A series of deaths and accidents take Hendrych and Kroupa from the luxury of a Blue Mountains resort to the Western Suburbs of Sydney. Are these multiple murders, and could they be related? Only time will tell as our intrepid duo once again face d...

  • the Cemetery

    Both plays, "The Cemetery" and 'The Confession", should be performed together in one evening, as a double-bill. "The Cemetery" follows "The Confession". The MAN and TRENT are performed by the same actor. Each play is performed without an inte...



  • The Confession

    Both plays, "The Cemetery" and 'The Confession", should be performed together in one evening, as a double-bill. "The Cemetery" follows "The Confession". The MAN and TRENT are performed by the same actor. Each play is performed without an inte...

  • Boletus

    Hendrych and Kroupa take to stage again, in their second play. This time a quiet weekend's mushroom picking yields more than they expected. Their grizzly find of a decomposing body in a boletus patch sees small-town politics rear its ugly hea...

  • The Beautiful Lady

    New-age pulp-fiction for an old-fashion price. Hendrych and Kroupa check into a luxury resort, but they're there on business, not pleasure. A notorious judge is found dead in the sauna and soon everybody at the hotel either is or wants to be...

  • Membrane

    From the mind that brought us Hendrych and Kroupa comes another unconventional adult night at the theatre. They say, "In vino veritas". and a student reunion puts the old saying to the test. But as the gathering gets drunker by the minute, the t...

  • Off the Rails

    When Hendrych visits India's Kashmir to attend a wedding, our intrepid duo go off the rails. literally. The train is derailed in a catastrophic accident and Kroupa and Hendrych find themselves amongst those lucky enough to have survived. Th...

  • The Gag and the Centrefold

    A club owner and a pole dancer are murdered within a few blocks of each other. Are the crimes linked? It certainly seems that way, but this time the investigation threatens to drive our intrepid duo apart when Hendrych gives in to temptation. With...

  • The Baby Jane Murders

    Two co-dependent old ladies live next door to one another until one of them is brutally murdered and the other is found holding the murder weapon in her hands. It should be an open and shut case, but Hendrych and Kroupa soon learn otherwise, and i...

  • The Missing Patek Philippe

    When Kroupa's faithful police dog, Sara, digs up an absurdly small human bone on an anthill, our dynamic duo have no idea what they're in for. A class reunion has clearly ended badly, but are they looking for a murderer, or a missing dia...

  • The Woolworth's Massacre

    Peaceful mountain getaway or terrorist target? When a mountain resort's reputation is threatened by an explosion at a supermarket opening, Hendrych and Kroupa are on hand to sift through the rubble. However, faced with the biggest body count...

  • The Death in Parliament

    The unthinkable happens. In the heart of the most secure building in the nation, the Speaker of the House of Representatives is shot. While she clings onto life, yet another parliamentarian is struck down. As our intrepid duo enter the world of po...



  • The Enemy Within

    Hendrych goes undercover to join a dangerous paramilitary group. Playing a dangerous game, he befriends one of the anarchists in an attempt to thwart their terrorist plot. This time however, the stakes are too high, and Kroupa is scared for the first...

  • St. Emilion's Secret

    Kroupa needs a holiday, so an invitation to a premiere in Bordeaux comes at just the right time. However, 'in vino veritas' and the region's vineyards soon reveal that the sins of the past still have devastating ramifications to thi...

  • The Return from the Death

    Having survived two separate terrorist attacks, the intrepid team of Hendrych and Kroupa had hoped to put the horrors of their run-in with the extremist group, AVPW, behind them. However, the prospect of world domination is too strong and they're soo...

  • The Golden Cigar Case

    When a wealthy jeweller is found battered do death, Kroupa and Hendrych find themselves in double trouble. As their investigations focus on a pair of identical twin sisters, danger comes too close to home for Kroupa's liking. This time his fa...

  • The Isleworth smile

    The repercussions of a 1911 art theft are still being felt today. As Kroupa and Hendrcyh find themselves at the heart of an international conspiracy that began over a century ago, even they are baffled. Is Leonardo da Vinci really laughing at them...

  • The Brain Farm

    Truth is often stranger than fiction. A suburban hit and run should be an open and shut case for our intrepid duo. However Kroupa and Hendrych soon realise that things are far more complicated than they look and once again they find themselves plunge...

  • The Isleworth Smile Part 2

    In 1911 the Mona Lisa disappeared. Two year's later she was returned to the Louvre, but not before she had turned the art world on its head. Rumours of copies emerged, and other versions of the painting were revealed at museums in Spain, the Unite...

  • The League of Free Men

    With a knick-knack paddywhack, give the dog a bone, this old man came rolling home.' Never has a truer word been spoken. When a bone is uncovered while investigating a car accident, Kroupa's faithful police dog uncovers a body, buried by the roadside...

  • Three Short Plays

    Ideally the play should be performed in a real pub, with the audience comprising regular patrons. This would ensure that he audience is appropriately mature. From the mind that brought us Hendrych and Kroupa comes another unconventional adult...

  • The Bald Pate

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    Kroupa is convinced that a serial killer is on the loose. A series of deaths by poison cannot be a coincidence, but what links them all? A woman who doesn't exist? Or the Sydney underworld?Or both? Kroupa and Hendrych have their work cut out...



  • A Literary Triptych

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    Left for dead in Zurich, is this the end for Kroupa and Beno?t? The horrors of the past have come back to life and at the centre of it all is the Mona Lisa. With Hendrych left in the dark, and Kroupa nowhere to be found, it looks as though evil pl...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Pen Avram has published 30 books.

Pen Avram does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The League of Free Men, was published in August 2015.

The first book by Pen Avram, The Seaside Clinic, was published in July 2011.

No. Pen Avram does not write books in series.
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