The Brush-Off (Murray Whelan Novels)
by Shane Maloney
Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction, this is the second Murray Whelan adventure.
Murray Whelan, political minder, is world-weary, terminally horny and addicted to cigarettes.
On a sultry Melbourne summer night, while Murray is in the Botanic Gardens tasting Salina Fleet’s apricot lips, a dead artist is being fished from the ornamental moat outside the art gallery. Whelan goes looking for the big picture among the culture vultures of Melbourne’s art world and quickly learns there is nothing abstract about a loaded gun.
