The Coast Road: Cliff Hardy 27 by Peter Corris (Epub)

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Wealthy Frederick Farmer died when his weekender burned to the ground. Death by accident, the police found. But his daughter, Dr Elizabeth Farmer, a feisty academic who resembles the younger Germaine Greer, hires Cliff Hardy to investigate. Is her only motive jealousy of her father’s attractive second wife, now very rich?

Hardy’s search takes him from the Illawarra escarpment to Wollongong and Port Kembla, and the police are far from co-operative as he tries to unravel the truth. He has his hands full when a panic-stricken call leads to a second case the search for the precocious daughter of Marisha Karatsky, an exotic, dark-eyed interpreter who gets well and truly under Hardy’s guard.

Hardy has narrow escapes and people die as his probing hits nerves. Corrupt cops, compromised insurance agents, feral bikies as well as a few good guys are drawn into the maelstrom. Hardy battles on through personal turmoil and vicious opposition with all outcomes uncertain and justice a remote ideal.

‘I don’t know how many Cliff Hardy novels there are, but there aren’t enough.’ – Kerry Greenwood, The Sydney Morning Herald

‘Hardy is a wonderful creation still, under Corris’s magisterial narrative control, capable of those odd echoes and resonances, the elegiac interludes, that characterise the best crime writing.’ – Graeme Blundell, The Weekend Australian

‘There has been no more efficient, entertaining and amusing writer of detective thrillers in Australia than Peter Corris.’ – The Age

User’s Reviews

From Booklist After a couple of decades, your typical mystery series tends to get a little stale. But there are exceptions: Westlake’s Dortmunder novels (35 years), McBain’s 87th Precinct series (49 years), and Corris’ Cliff Hardy series, which is now at the quarter-century mark and still going strong. Unlike the oft-reprinted novels of Westlake and McBain, however, Australian Corris’ work is not widely available in the U.S. The publication of this representative Hardy novel should help change that. In The Coast Road, a wealthy man dies, and his daughter asks Sydney PI Hardy to find out whether it really was an accident, as the police have ruled. Does the daughter know something, or is she merely jealous of her father’s second wife, who now stands to inherit a fortune? Before he can get a handle on the case, another one drops into his lap, and this one, involving a missing person, hits Cliff on an emotional as well as a professional level. The novel is sharply written in the classic gumshoe tradition, and it generates enough energy to keep readers plowing forward. David PittCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. Review “‘I don’t know how many Cliff Hardy novels there are, but there aren’t enough.’ Kerry Greenwood, The Sydney Morning Herald ‘Hardy is a wonderful creation still, under Corris’s magisterial narrative control, capable of those odd echoes and resonances, the elegiac interlude, that characterise the best crime writing.’ Graeme Blundell, The Weekend Australian ‘There has been no more efficient, entertaining and amusing writer of detective thrillers in Australia than Peter Corris.’ The Age” –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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⭐ IT’S A GOOD thing that PI extraordinaire Cliff Hardy has strong multi tasking and time management skills, because by the end of the first chapter of THE COAST ROAD, he has agreed to investigate the death of a local family man whose body was discovered in the ruins of a burnt out cottage surrounded by lush forest an hour’s drive from the centre of Sydney. By the end of chapter two, Hardy has agreed to look for a teenage runaway daughter whom presumably has managed to fall into the seedy underworld of drugs, underage prostitution and goodness knows what else.Whilst it is not fair to say that PI novels all follow the same formula, there is a fair degree of predictability when, in the opening sections of the book, our hero meets the story’s first thug and either beats him into submission, or convinces said thug not to take the risk in the first place. In TCD the book’s first thug actually leads Hardy to the second, who is wise enough to selection Option B outlined above. This gifts Hardy with a lead concerning the missing girl and by this time, the fabled book lover has forgotten all non sensical mumblings and ramblings about anything being predictable since they are having *way* too much fun.This book is called THE COAST ROAD and it is by no means an accident that the coastal roads of this wide brown land we all adore twist and turn like a caterpillar suffering an epileptic fit. Just like the novel’s plot. Peter Corris certainly knows how to write hugely entertaining, thrilling and immensely satisfying crime novels. The world knows this, as the world has been reading them for close to forty years. Cliff Hardy is one mean and successful private detective. Put the two together and you come up with an unbeatable combination. Don’t believe me? Then read this intriguing, compelling and satisfying story yourself to find out. It lacks the profundity of some of his other books, so I give this one a very solid four stars.Bye for now.

⭐ The Coast Road is a very aptly chosen title for this book whose plot takes many unexpectedly sharp twists and turns and whose author’s deeper but understated concern is about how modern Australian society is cracking and crumbling away. Peter Corris is a highly skilled writer and has in Cliff Hardy a lead character as tough as he needs to be, as seedy as his creator wants him to be, but always committed in the end to seeing right triumph to the extent he is able to make this happen. This is never achieved cleanly or simply, because the cases are tough and reflect life’s grimmer realities. It is a gripping read.

⭐ Peter Corris’s Cliff Hardy may be the best classic hard-boiled PI operating in the literary world these days. I mean, he’s up there with Archer and Spenser and Spade and McGee and Marlowe. But he’s the only one with a living author. Through 40 some adventures down under, this gumshoe turns over all the rocks, hammers what crawls out and gets hammered himself. This tale is as good a place to start as any. A great series that deserves to be better known outside its native Australia.

⭐ IT’S A GOOD thing that PI extraordinaire Cliff Hardy has strong multi tasking and time management skills, because by the end of the first chapter of THE COAST ROAD, he has agreed to investigate the death of a local family man whose body was discovered in the ruins of a burnt out cottage surrounded by lush forest an hour’s druve from the centre of Sydney. By the end of chapter two, Hardy has agreed to look for a teenage runaway daughter whom presumably has managed to fall into the seedy underworld of drugs, underage prostitution and goodness knows what else.Whilst it is not fair to say that PI novels all follow the sme formula, there is a fair degree of predictability when, in the opening sections of the book, our hero meets the story’s first thug and either beats him into submission, or convinces said thug not to take the risk in the first place. In TCD the book’s first thug actually leads Hardy to the second, who is wise enough to selection Option B outlined above. This gifts Hardy with a lead concerning the missing girl and by this time, the fabled book lover has forgotten all non sensical mumblings and ramblings about anything being predictable since they are having *way* too much fun.This book is called THE COAST ROAD and it is by no means an accident that the coastal roads of this wide brown land we all adore twist and turn like a caterpillar suffering an epileptic fit. Just like the novel’s plot. Peter Corris certainly knows how to write hugely entertaining, thrilling and immensely satisfying crime novels. The world knows this, as the world has been reading them for close to forty years. Cliff Hardy is one mean and successful private detective. Put the two together and you come up with an unbeatable combination. Don’t believe me? Then read this intriguing, compelling and satisfying story yoyrself to find out. It lacks the profundity of some of his other books, so I give this one a very solid four stars.Bye for now.

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