Jim Reay: 7 books

In the 1960s, Professor Julius Sumner Miller asked television viewers, **‘Why is it so?’** Now, in The Most Avoided Questions, Jim Reay examines the historical and scientific evidence as to how we regularly make moral decisions about difficult issues such as:  • Is survival of...

Cambridge academic, Dr Spencer Avery, arrives in Toowoomba in 2008, both to flee a strained romance in England and to bring his expertise to ‘the colonies’. His arrogant preconception is challenged by the wit and idiosyncrasies of rural Queensland. But, behind the new experiences, danger lurks.  Olga...

When Napoleon is crowned King of Italy in 1805, a gypsy claims his troops have stolen a precious sapphire from her family. The gypsy curses Napoleon, predicting a future where he will be stripped of his power and banished from society. Fast forward 200 years. Journalist, Alison Wood reports...

Jim Reay is back with a gripping book that challenges his readers and reveals what really goes on beneath the normality of a tranquil city.  Harry Boyd, Brisbane high-school teacher and mathematics whiz, has a problem. His Irish-reporter tenant, Siobhan Doyle, has disappeared in puzzling circumstances....

Behind the glitter of Queenland's Gold Coast, danger lurks. A blameless Brisbane woman is abducted. A man is murdered. Danger is imminent.  Sam Hall, IIB agent, is in Brisbane on leave when he gets caught up innocently in the fallout from the kidnap of a Chinese woman and the discovery of...

The year is 2030. The population of the world is well over 8 billion. Someone has sabotaged all the silicon-based electronics on the planet. No modern technology is working – no phones, no computers, no navigation systems, no Internet, no television and there is minimal distribution of food –...

Something big is about to happen in the eastern Mediterranean; potentially a crime against humanity. It will be soon, and in many places, but the target and the means are far from clear. Emma Jazy is a twenty-nine-year-old Swiss agent with IIB, the Netherlands-based International Investigations...