The Other Side of Sorrow: Cliff Hardy 23 by Peter Corris (Epub)

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The godfather of Australian crime fiction.’

It’s been twenty years since Cliff Hardy saw his ex-wife Cynthia, and he’s amazed to get a phone call from her. Cyn is dying of cancer and she’s desperate to get in touch with the daughter she gave up for adoption – the daughter who, she confesses, is Cliff’s.

Cliff is sceptical but agrees to take on the search for her daughter. The trail is far from simple – and more violence threatens him the further he goes.

User’s Reviews

Peter Corris is best known as the godfather of Australian crime fiction and the author of Cliff Hardy detective stories. He is also the author of A Round of Golf: 18 Holes with Peter Corris and the coauthor of Fred Hollows: An Autobiography. –This text refers to the paperback edition.

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⭐ THIS BOOK’S OPENING chapters form a gut wrenching introduction to a relatively unwelcome expose to an aspect of life that we all have to face. Hardy’s ex wife makes contact out of the blue and all of the associated bitter memories and arguments rise to the surface of his conscience before he has the sense to agree to a meeting. It turns out that Cynthia (the former wife) has terminal cancer, and with only weeks left to live, wants Hardy to track down the abandoned daughter he didn’t know he had in time for Cyn to see her one more time.Sad, huh?Long term fans of the series as well as Hardy completionists will pick this book up and savour every word. Newbies to the series may not be so enamoured of the greatest crime fighter this country has produced since The Phantom hit the shelves. The book is entertaining, there’s no denying that, but it struggles to lift itself from the quagmire of sadness and grief that was gifted to the reader at the start.The book is set in the years leading up to the Sydney Olympics and Hardy is soon hot on the trail of a suspected sighting of his daughter at an associated protest site. This leads to the book’s first display of biffo, which leads to some sexual tension, which leads to a break in, a murder and a link to all three. Of course the plot is more complicated than that but its enough I hope to pique your interest.The book’s second half is more lively and entertaining than the first, and the resolution of the mystery itself is the story’s highlight. But for once in a PI novel the story is not just about the case, which means, of course, that the reader needs to witness the counterpoint to what they learnt at the start. As we all know, Life is not always a bed of roses and, if nothing else, TOSOS does well to reinforce this point. The story itself suffers as a consequence but maybe that is the whole damn point.Yo to that.

⭐ THIS BOOK’S OPENING chapters form a gut wrenching introduction to a relatively unwelcome expose to an aspect of life that we all have to face. Hardy’s ex wife makes contact out of the blue and all of the associated bitter memories and arguments rise to the surface of his conscience before he has the sense to agree to a meeting. It turns out that Cynthia (the former wife) has terminal cancer, and with only weeks left to live, wants Hardy to track down the abandoned daughter he didn’t know he had in time for Cyn to see her one more time.Sad, huh?Long term fans of the series as well as Hardy completionists will pick this book up and savour every word. Newbies to the series may not be so enamoured of the greatest crime fighter this country has produced since The Phantom hit the shelves. The book is entertaining, there’s no denying that, but it struggles to lift itself from the quagmire of sadness and grief that was gifted to the reader at the start.The book is set in the years leading up to the Sydney Olympics and Hardy is soon hot on the trail of a suspected sighting of his daughter at an associated protest site. This leads to the book’s first display of biffo, which leads to some sexual tension, which leads to a break in, a murder and a link to all three. Of course the plot is more complicated than that but its enough I hope to pique your interest.The book’s second half is more lively and entertainning than the first, and the resolution of the mystery itself is the story’s highlight. But for once in a PI novel the story is not just about the case, which means, of course, that the reader needs to witness the counterpoint to what they learnt at the start. As we all know, Life is not always a bed of roses and, if nothing else, TOSOS does well to reinforce this point. The story itself suffers as a consequence but maybe that is the whole damn point.Yo to that.

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