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1) Lost Days
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When Private Investigator, Sonoma (Sonny) Whittington regains consciousness in the middle of a cold, wet night, she finds herself on an abandoned mine site and sporting a severe head wound. She has lost her watch, her phone, and one sneaker. But that's not all she has lost. She spends time in hospital in an induced coma before being released under strict conditions to try to put her life back together again. She doesn't accept that her dissociative...
2) Connections
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Suspicions their husbands were straying, sent two wives running to Private Investigator, SONOMA (Sonny) WHITTINGTON, to investigate. While each case had some unusual aspects, both seemed likely to be straightforward investigations... that is until one of her clients disappears. Suspecting foul play, Sonny finds herself working well outside her original briefs to find her missing client. Her investigations have her unravelling some clues in her quest...
3) A Dark Place
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How do you prove you are who you claim to be? After the death of the only parents she ever knew, Kirsty McGregor is devastated to learn she was adopted. In the course of trying to establish her true identity, she uncovers a possible link to a longstanding deceased estate which includes a substantial property and a big old house. The gruelling process to prove her identity, necessary to substantiate her claim, leaves her psychologically fragile and...
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When a phone call ends Private Investigator, Sonoma (Sonny) Whittington's planned lazy weekend, she has no idea she is about to be dragged into the murky world of drug trafficking, corrupt public servants, money laundering, death and attempts on her own life.Sonny's former boss, Therese Melrose, is dead. The family can't accept the Police verdict of domestic accident and asks Sonny to take a look at what happened. Although reluctant to revisit that...
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Why would security services owner, Frank Hensley, need to engage a private investigator? Intrigued by that question, private investigator, Sonoma (Sonny) Whittington, can't resist taking the case. Early in her first night on the job, one of Hensley's security patrols is ambushed. She doesn't know it then, but the incident marks the start of a case more complex than anticipated.With the attack on the patrol a police matter, Sonny is forced to suspend...
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Marion Dawson and the Merivale Retirement Village's mahjong team have had a busy year. The Village's expansion program has seen them help turn a number of projects into a reality. New library, new bowling green, new theatre, new residents, and new friendships are among the outcomes, along with crime which almost destroys one of the team's pet projects.
You are invited to meet some of the new residents, watch new friendships develop, and enjoy their...
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After five people are poisoned at a company's pre-Christmas party, the police have local coffee shop proprietor, Cara Ballard, in their sights as the prime suspect. Their investigation focuses on proving her guilty rather than investigating other avenues. They show no interest in investigating two earlier attacks on Cara's coffee shop, one of which left a staff member seriously injured, and refuse to accept all the incidents might be linked.In a bid...
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Unholy Secrets is the story of a daughter's determination to uncover the truth about her father's death.
After eight years away from home, Lucy Telford returns to resolve the circumstances of her father's death more than three years earlier. At the time, the police believed it was suicide, but their botched investigation resulted in a coroner's open verdict due to a lack of evidence presented. Lucy turns to local Private Investigator, Sonoma (Sonny)...
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Private Investigator, Sonoma (Sonny) Whittington, becomes entangled in a tapestry of deceit and danger when she takes on a seemingly routine case for the enigmatic businesswoman, Janine Thomlinson. Initially asked to investigate Janine's husband's suspected affair, the case becomes sinister when a suspicious accident leaves Janine hospitalised. As her investigation progresses, she discovers the Thomlinson mansion holds secrets far darker than a simple...
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After a number of years of working every waking hour as a way of dealing with the grief in her life, private investigator, Sonoma (Sonny) Whittington, takes time out and heads to England for a term of study at a university there. Those studies unexpectedly take her to work for a brief period on an archaeological dig site on the island of Crete. What she imagines will be a pleasant sojourn on a Mediterranean island turns into an adventure beyond her...
11) Fateful Reunion
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After some twenty years away from her home town, Stella Martin returns for a high school reunion. Her life becomes bizarre when a girl she barely knew claims her as a long lost best friend. After discovering they both now live in the same town, the 'friend' maintains contact. Stella's decision to attend the high school reunion destroys her life. After engaging Private Investigator, Sonoma (Sonny) Whittington, to investigate recent changes in his wife's...
12) After The Ball
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Emily Ibbotson is frantic when Callum Farquhar, her partner for the weekend, vanishes from the B&S ball. In desperation and as a last resource after searching everywhere, she calls in her friend and Private Investigator, Sonoma (Sonny) Whittington to help. Why Callum was, so keen to spend the weekend at a festival in a remote rural Central Queensland town is a mystery to all concerned. After a few days of finding nothing to indicate how or why he...
13) Close to Home
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This is a story about friendship, jealousy, life in the close confines of a retirement village, and of a disparate group of people brought together by their love of playing mahjong. After one of their playing venues closes down for a couple of weeks, the group finds itself missing a key player.
Alice Logan, realising the closedown is an opportunity for a long-overdue vacation, makes a last minute booking on a cruise. The mahjong players are concerned...
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1 body in a cow paddock. 1 bus. 1 canine terrorist. 2 rebel uprisings. 2 troubled relationships. 3 tense residents. 1 confused mahjong group. It is just One thing after another for the group to deal with, and then there are the other big questions causing unrest.
Was the bowling green a mistake? Is the pool shaping up to be a white elephant? Why are regular happy hour sessions on hold, and why have mahjong mornings been cancelled? The Merivale Retirement...