Shane Maloney: 7 books

A Murray Whelan Mystery from the author of Stiff. “Murray is a great creation . . . Takes the wisecracking wise guy into a whole new realm” (Houston Chronicle). When Murray Whelan, lovelorn political minder and part-time fitness fanatic, is recruited to massage Australia’s bid for the...

**The “**fourth raucous adventure” of the Murray Whelan Mystery from the author of Nice Try features “the charming and reckless Australian political adviser” (Publishers Weekly).   Murray Whelan is in trouble. A disastrous election is looming, and his days as advisor to Angelo Agnelli, minister...

Shortlisted for the 2007 Age Book of the Year Award. Murray Whelan's sixth adventure. Now pushing fifty, Murray is spinning his wheels in Parliament: a toothless cog in a stalled political machine. The millennium is coming but the prospect of Labor regaining power is utterly remote. But...

“I look forward to the next Murray Whelan book with the same anticipation of pleasure that I feel for the new Carl Hiaasen or Elmore Leonard” (The Sydney Morning Herald). Single father Murray Whelan thinks the life of a parent and political operative is complicated enough. His ex is staking...

The fifth Murray Whelan adventure. Even in the political wilderness, hope springs eternal for the Honourable Murray Whelan MP. He has found true love, with the salty-tongued Lyndal Luscombe, and there is a baby on the way. But dreams of domestic bliss are shattered when a jail fugitive kills...

Murray Whelan is the political advisor to the newly appointed minister of culture, Angelo (“Tell me, Murray, what are the Arts?”) Agnelli, and he’s hanging on to his job by his toenails. On his first day, the disgruntled young artist Marcus Taylor is found dead, drowned in the ornamental moat...

Mammals are the so-called "pinnacle" group of vertebrates, successfully colonising virtually all terrestrial environments as well as the air (bats) and sea (especially pinnipeds and cetaceans). How mammals function and survive in these diverse environments has long fascinated mammologists, comparative...