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A brutal killing in the mangroves. A detective with everything to prove. Tough ex-boxer DS Jack Lisbon didn’t cross the world for an easy life. Fresh off a troubled career in London, he’s barely gained his footing in steamy North Queensland when a mangled corpse washes up on the edge of a mangrove swamp. It looks like what locals blame on crocodiles. But the wounds tell a different story. This wasn’t nature. It was murder. And when a champion athlete disappears the same night, police suddenly face a possible double homicide. The list of suspects grows fast, but the tight-knit community of Yorkville closes ranks, and nobody wants to talk. DS Jack Lisbon and his partner, Detective Claudia Taylor, find themselves digging through a world of grudges, silence, and rising violence as they hunt a killer who’s spiralling out of control. Kill Shot is the first full-length novel in The Fighting Detective series and can be read as a standalone. If you enjoy gritty police procedurals featuring uncompromising, hard-boiled detectives, this series is right up your street. ________________________________________________________________________ Praise for The Fighting Detective series: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A gritty, fast-paced crime thriller that kept me reading long past bedtime. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Refreshingly different. The Australian setting and relentless action hooked me from page one. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Jack Lisbon is a flawed, compelling detective you can’t look away from. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Tense, twisty, and downright addictive. A brilliant start to a series. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Hard-hitting, atmospheric and full of surprises. I couldn’t put it down.

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Blair Denholm is a born-and-bred Australian crime fiction writer whose previous jobs have been as varied as translator, debt collector, technology researcher, banking and insurance consultant, and even car-wash attendant. Over the years he has lived and worked in New York, Moscow, Munich, Abu Dhabi and Australia. His life-long love of sports is reflected in the plots of the Fighting Detective series. His flagship series, The Fighting Detective, stars ex-boxer Detective Sergeant Jack Lisbon and is set in the steamy tropics of North Queensland, Australia. The series features heavy doses of noir crime with a vigilante justice twist. So far there are eight novels and one prequel novella in the series, with more in the pipeline. Denholm's debut novel, SOLD, is the first in a noir trilogy featuring the detestable yet lovable one-man wrecking ball Gary Braswell. The book was long-listed for movie adaptation by Screen Queensland in 2019. The other books in this series are Sold to the Devil and Sold Dirt Cheap. Denholm has also written two thriller novels set in Russia. Captain Viktor Voloshin is a hard-boiled investigator who has to fight the establishment in order for justice to be served in his own special way. The first in this series, Revolution Day, was published in 2021, with the follow-up, The Defector, released in 2024. One more book will round off this series. He grew up in suburban Brisbane, Queensland. After two lengthy stints in Tasmania, he now resides in the relatively cooler climes of the Southern Downs region of Queensland with his partner, Sandra, and faithful dog, Bruno.

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