Fighting Detective

A brutal murder. A missing athlete. A detective with everything to prove… Working his first homicide case since relocating from the United Kingdom, Detective Sergeant Jack Lisbon must prove he's got what it takes to perform in the heat of tropical Northern Australia. A mutilated body washes up on the edge of a mangrove forest with wounds in keeping with a frenzied crocodile attack, which, to begin with, seems a straightforward incident-death by misadventure. However, when Lisbon and his partner Detective Claudia Taylor investigate further, all signs point towards a premeditated, vicious murder. The case takes another sinister turn when a champion athlete vanishes, forcing the police to consider the possibility of a double homicide. As the list of suspects grows, the detectives find themselves up against a wall of silence in the tight-knit community of Yorkville-no one wants to talk, and the killer remains elusive. With time running out, can Lisbon rise to the challenge and bring the perpetrator to justice? Kill Shot is the gripping first installment of Blair Denholm's The Fighting Detective series, a gritty, hard-boiled Australian police procedural that will keep readers guessing until the very end.

One dead coach. Countless secrets. Zero suspects. Can Detective Lisbon find the killer? A hit-and-run victim lies shattered on a sunlit street. The victim: Dale Collins, legendary coach of the Yorkville Scorpions. After decades of heartbreak, his team was finally on the verge of their first championship. Now, they're reeling from a murder that's left a community in shock. The killers were meticulous. No DNA. No prints. No witnesses. Nothing but questions. For Detective Sergeant Jack Lisbon, an ex-boxer haunted by his own demons, this case cuts deep. Together with DC Claudia Taylor, he's racing to untangle a web of long-buried grudges and dark secrets. Their suspect list reads like a stadium roster-each with the motive and means to want Collins dead. As the playoffs loom and pressure mounts, Lisbon and Taylor discover that in Yorkville, vengeance is a game played for the highest stakes. In Shot Clock, the second installment in Blair Denholm's gripping The Fighting Detective series, readers are taken on a heart-pounding journey through the gritty underbelly of a town gripped by fear.