Crime Scene Cessnock

Synopsis

Les is back and on the detox ...All it took was a summer's day and a flat tyre on his push-bike and Les is out on bail and on the run from a gun-happy street gang intent on a drive-by. So with Warren's help Les Norton defendant becomes Len Gordon film director safely ensconced at the ultra-swish Opal Springs Health Resort till Eddie can sort things out back in Sydney. Unfortunately the first thing Les finds on arrival is motivational guru Alexander Holden dead at the front gate. Then before you can say 'soya beans with tahini and lime dressing' the cops arrive and Les is up to his neck in a land of a thousand acronyms fighting off steroid-happy body builders sex-crazed socialites violent greyhound owners - and worst of all caffeine withdrawals - while at the same time matching wits with the four acrimonious writers-in-residence. Was Alexander Holden murdered? Or was it an accident? Find out in the gripping climax and food fight when all is revealed - in the library. Robert G. Barrett's latest Les Norton adventure Crime Scene Cessnock set in New South Wales's beautiful Pokolbin Valley is a whodunnit with a difference and proves once again why Barrett is to quote The Australian newspaper 'the king of popular fiction'.