Stiff

7 best books like Stiff (Shane Maloney): The Broken Shore, Grand Days, The Porpoise, Kittyhawk Down, He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, Kickback, Under the Cold Bright Lights

The Broken Shore

Author	Peter Temple
ISBN	0374116938

Broken by his last case, homicide detective Joe Cashin has fled the city and returned to his hometown to run its one-man police station while his wounds heal and the nightmares fade. He lives a quiet life with his two dogs in the tumbledown wreck his family home has become. It's a peaceful existence - ideal...

Grand Days

Author	Frank Moorhouse
ISBN	1740510372

A contemporary romantic Australian masterpiece, Grand Days tells of the moral and sexual awakening of an idealistic young Australian woman working in the diplomatic corps in Europe in the aftermath of World War I.

On a train from Paris to Geneva, Edith Campbell Berry meets Major Ambrose Westwood...

The Porpoise

Author	Mark Haddon
ISBN	1784742821

‘I really am so very, very sorry about this,’ he says, in an oddly formal voice… They strike the side of a grain silo. They are travelling at seventy miles per hour.

A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash.

She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective...

Kittyhawk Down

Author

Garry Disher

"A missing two-year-old girl, and the body of an unidentified drowning victim have brought Homicide Squad Inspector Hal Challis, of the Peninsula Police Force, to Bushrangers Bay at the Australian seaside not far from Melbourne. All is not idyllic in this resort community; far from it. Cars are stolen...

He Died with a Felafel in His Hand

Author	John Birmingham
ISBN	1875989218

I once lived with a man who covered the entire wall of our shared (four people) bathroom with hard-core Dutch pornography. I asked him to take it down and he claimed it couldn’t be removed as it was ‘Art’. We had a yelling match that went for thirty minutes.

If you’ve ever shared a home with...

Kickback

Author	Garry Disher
ISBN	1863735917

PROTAGONIST: Wyatt
SETTING: Australia
SERIES: #1 of 7
RATING: 4.0
WHY: Wyatt is a professional thief whose hit on some hard times. The jobs just aren't coming in, and he's been forced to take on a few that he normally would not have. But finally, there's what appears to be a decent job...

Under the Cold Bright Lights

Author	Garry Disher
ISBN	1925498883

The young detectives call Alan Auhl a retread, but that doesn’t faze him. He does things his own way—and gets results.

He still lives with his ex-wife, off and on, in a big house full of random boarders and hard-luck stories. And he’s still a cop, even though he retired from Homicide some...