Denise Neville: 10 books

A girl has gone missing. Police believe she is having a good time after a weekend away from home at a music festival. They have heard it all before after such festivals and are not interested, believing she will go home when she is ready. In desperation, the girl’s parents engage Private Investigator,...

OYSTER POINT, a small Queensland coastal town is dying. As a child, EZRA GREEN and his father arrived here at the very beginning of the settlement. He knew and was part of the dream for the future of the town. A century and a half after his arrival in the town, he watches what was once a magnificent...

Two straying husbandsa client disappearsand Sonoma Whittington finds herself exploring the heart of a murky crime world.Two wives engage Private Investigator, SONOMA (Sonny) WHITTINGTON, to investigate their suspicions that their husbands are pursuing other romantic interests. While each case...

After five people are poisoned at a company’s pre-Christmas party, the police have local coffee shop proprietor, Cara Ballard, in their sights as the prime suspect. Their investigation focuses on proving her guilty rather than investigating other avenues. They show no interest in investigating two...

After a number of years of working every waking hour as a way of dealing with the grief in her life, private investigator, Sonoma (Sonny) Whittington, takes time out and heads to England for a term of study at a university there. Those studies unexpectedly take her to work for a brief period on an...

Why would security services owner, Frank Hensley, need to engage a private investigator? Intrigued by that question, private investigator, Sonoma (Sonny) Whittington, can’t resist taking the case. Early in her first night on the job, one of Hensley’s security patrols is ambushed. She doesn’t...

When a phone call ends Private Investigator, Sonoma (Sonny) Whittington’s planned lazy weekend, she has no idea she is about to be dragged into the murky world of drug trafficking, corrupt public servants, money laundering, death and attempts on her own life.Sonny’s former boss, Therese Melrose,...

Anthea Granger inherits a mansion in the small seaside community of Charlotte Cove. For well over a century, the Granger family has owned the property. The community believes the house is cursed. It is on the day she is to move in that she learns of the place’s sinister reputation. It is made clear...

How resilient is the human condition? In 1868, a Danish family immigrating to Australia is shipwrecked on the way through Torres Strait. The mother and several children are lost. Only the father, his eldest daughter and nephew survive to embark upon the new live they planned in this new land too far...

What do you do when you are a middle-aged retired spinster and your life is in a rut?You take yourself off for a holiday at an exotic location.And that is exactly what almost 50 year old spinster Marjorie Leggett decides to do. Her new life in early retirement lacks direction, excitement and everything...