Silver / Chris Hammer.

By: Hammer, Chris, 1960- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Hammer, Chris, Martin Scarsden ; 2.Read how you want 16Publisher: [Strawberry Hills, NSW] : ReadHowYouWant, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Edition: Large print editionDescription: viii, 706 pages : map ; 24 cmContent type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780369328137 (paperback)Subject(s): Scarsden, Martin, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Country life -- New South Wales -- Riverina -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Journalists -- Fiction | Riverina (N.S.W.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Australian fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction). | Large type books. | Thrillers (Fiction). | Detective and mystery fiction.DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: For half a lifetime, journalist Martin Scarsden has run from his past. But now there is no escaping. He'd vowed never to return to his hometown, Port Silver, and its traumatic memories. But now his new partner, Mandy Blonde, has inherited an old house in the seaside town and Martin knows their chance of a new life together won't come again. Martin arrives to find his best friend from school days has been brutally murdered, and Mandy is the chief suspect. With the police curiously reluctant to pursue other suspects, Martin goes searching for the killer. And finds the past waiting for him. He's making little progress when a terrible new crime starts to reveal the truth. The media descend on Port Silver, attracted by a story that has it all: sex, drugs, celebrity and religion. Once again, Martin finds himself in the front line of reporting. Yet the demands of deadlines and his desire to clear Mandy are not enough: the past is ever present.
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For half a lifetime, journalist Martin Scarsden has run from his past. But now there is no escaping. He'd vowed never to return to his hometown, Port Silver, and its traumatic memories. But now his new partner, Mandy Blonde, has inherited an old house in the seaside town and Martin knows their chance of a new life together won't come again. Martin arrives to find his best friend from school days has been brutally murdered, and Mandy is the chief suspect. With the police curiously reluctant to pursue other suspects, Martin goes searching for the killer. And finds the past waiting for him. He's making little progress when a terrible new crime starts to reveal the truth. The media descend on Port Silver, attracted by a story that has it all: sex, drugs, celebrity and religion. Once again, Martin finds himself in the front line of reporting. Yet the demands of deadlines and his desire to clear Mandy are not enough: the past is ever present.

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