Peter Menadue

• Mar-2014
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Canberra political reporter Paul Ryder gets the sack again, this time for sleeping with the wrong woman. Jobs are scarce and he’s forced to become the national political correspondent for a tiny Tasmanian paper with a dwindling circulation. He need...

• Mar-2014
• / Mystery
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A Cabinet Minister is murdered, Parliament House is in uproar and political newshound Paul Ryder is busy trying to sleep with a sexy TV reporter. Soon he’s on the trail of the scoop of a lifetime. All he has to do is survive the media moguls, polit...

• Mar-2014
• / Mystery
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Sacked Canberra political correspondent Paul Ryder is chasing a story that will blow the doors of a federal election campaign. Trained killers, spies, hardened political operators and his mother-in-law are trying to stop him. If he survives them, he ...

• Apr-2014
• / Thriller
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Ambitious criminal defence barrister Robyn Palmer gets her first big break when she's briefed as junior counsel in a high-profile murder trial. Unfortunately, her leader has lecherous designs and their client looks guilty as hell. However, nothing is...

• Dec-2015
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Vol 4 in Bush Capital Series. With his career in political journalism a smoking ruin, Paul Ryder becomes a ghost-writer. A legendary West Australian mining tycoon hires him to pen his autobiography. All Paul has to do is write a lot of lies and bank ...

• Feb-2016
• / General Fiction
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A late October breeze blew quietly in from the west, rustling the leaves of the turning trees. Early morning darkness was made darker by a heavy fog as it settled down upon the town, blinding whoever attempted to peer into its depths. I tried my hard...

• Feb-2016
• / Suspense
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"Listen, you moron, man-made global warming's complete garbage. It's a conjob that pointy-headed scientists invented to get more funding." Gary Maddox sat in the back of his battered van, staring through a one-way glass panel at a street lined with d...

• Feb-2016
• / Thriller
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It was the end of the road for Billy Harper, both literally and figuratively. From the literal standpoint, the end of the road was a well-groomed cul-de-sac in New Canaan, Connecticut, with stately mansions staring back at him. The figurative was muc...

• Mar-2016
• / Thriller
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Ex-bouncer Dave Bennett is released from prison, determined to go reasonably straight. A drug boss owes him $300,000 and refuses to pay up unless Dave finds his run-away daughter. Bullets are soon flying and Dave discovers that life outside is far mo...

• Apr-2016
• / Amateur Sleuth
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Julia Schmidt reckons the suburban library where she works is the most boring place on earth. Then an old hobo dies in an armchair. Everyone thinks he died of natural causes. They are wrong, and Julia is soon playing cat-and-mouse with a killer while...

• Dec-2016
• / Thriller
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Three hundred years after a global pandemic, Webster City, near the ruins of Chicago, is the last city on Earth. Surrounding enemies threaten to destroy it. But, when Major Carl Davidson investigates the suspicious death of a brilliant biochemist, he...

• Apr-2017
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Sydney private investigator Gary Maddox is asked to find a missing accountant. He doesn't expect any trouble. After all, the guy is just an bean counter. But he's dead wrong. Powerful men have dispatched a posse of thugs to kill the ledger lurker. Ga...

• May-2018
• / Mystery
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Canberra political journalist Paul Ryder is unemployed again and forced to ghostwrite the memoirs of sports stars. When a car bomb kills a federal Senator, he jumps back into the game and chases glory. But will his by-line end up on a scoop or a t...

• Sep-2019
• / Amateur Sleuth
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Volume 6 in the Bush Capital Series. Ronin political reporter Paul Ryder travels north to tropical Queensland to attend the marriage of his hellish mother-in-law. He ends up in a sunny town with shady people. A close friend is murdered. Corruption bu...

• Nov-2019
• / Thriller
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SECOND BOOK IN THE WEBSTER CITY CHRONICLES. The Freedom Alliance has conquered Webster City, death stalks the streets and Carl Davidson expects to be executed at any time. However, the leader of the Freedom Alliance gives him a temporary reprieve and...

• Sep-2021
• / Thriller
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Volume 7 in the Bush Capital Series. Paul Ryder is still a pariah in political journalism and forced to ghost-write the memoirs of vapid sport stars. However, a chance encounter at a wedding puts him on the trail of a story that will shake federal po...

• Nov-2021
• / Thriller
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Third book in the Gary Maddox Series. When Sydney private investigator, Gary Maddox, is hired to recover a stolen painting, he plunges deep into the art world and finds himself battling crooks who are smooth, well-dressed and death in a chilled glass...

• Jul-2022
• / General Fiction
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THIRD BOOK IN THE WEBSTER CITY CHRONICLES. Carl Davidson and three companions flee the carcass of Webster City into the wasteland beyond. They  must journey to safety across a brutal land where the past is more dangerous than the future. The thi...

• May-2023
• / Science Fiction
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The United States has become a dictatorship. Homicide detectives use memory auditing to catch murderers. The procedure seems foolproof. However, Homicide detective Glen Tucker suspects that someone is erasing incriminating memories to help killers es...

• Dec-2023
• / General Fiction
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Volume 8 in the Bush Capital series. Washed-up political reporter Paul Ryder is a 40-something guy who needs adventure. When his lawyer girlfriend asks him to find and tell a man that he has inherited $9 million, he jumps at the chance. He can preten...

• Dec-2023
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SEQUEL TO LOST GLORY. The story that began with Lost Glory is brought to a triumphant conclusion in New Glory. Homicide detective Glen Tucker must search for memories deleted from his brain. They are the key to him toppling a dictatorship and finding...