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Off Season Kindle Edition

by Clive Fleury (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
Detective Ryan navigates drug overdoses, a mysterious foot on the beach and a long-buried cold case.

Detective Ramesh Ryan's career with Sydney's prestigious Organized Crime Unit is on the up, until he loses a court case against the city's most powerful drug dealer. In disgrace, the detective is relocated to the tiny Australian beach town of Barton.

It is off-season in Barton-when its few criminals usually take a well-earned rest. But not this year! With the detective's arrival, the town suddenly becomes murder central. Two bodies are discovered in the space of days, both victims of drug overdoses. Then a mysterious foot is found washed up on the beach, and memories are awoken of an unsolved cold case of the teenager who disappeared fifteen years ago. Add to this a blossoming romance, along with a contract taken out on Ryan's life, and it's clear that the detective has jumped out of the Sydney frying pan into the Barton fire.

What follows is an action-packed adventure, thrilling at every turn-where truth and lies are almost impossible to separate, and unexpected twists are the order of the day.
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  1. Print length
    407 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Coffeetown Press
  4. Publication date
    February 14, 2024
  5. File size
    706 KB
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"Attention grabber. Moves quickly and smoothly. Informative. Enjoyable. Don't miss." Margaret, Goodreads

Detective Ryan loses a case due to a incompetent prosecutor and the defendant tricks and payoffs. In apparent punishment he is sent to a small costal town to solve a 15 year old cold case disappearance. His arrival isat the same time as a rich kid dies from an overdose of pure cochise. As the death's mount he starts to but the pieces together a contract is put out on his life. Fast paced and real page turner.
Denzel Struchen, Goodreads, 5 Stars

About the Author

Clive Fleury is an award-winning writer of novels and screenplays, including most recently the murder mystery detective novel "Off Season". He is also a TV/Film writer, director, and producer who has worked for major broadcasters and studios on a wide variety of successful drama and documentary projects, in the US, the UK, Europe, Australia and the Middle East. He has written and directed four feature films, one of which, "Big City Blues," starred Giancarlo Esposito, the late Burt Reynolds, and Balthazar Getty. His most recent film, "Sons of Summer," is a surfing movie set on the Gold Coast of Australia and stars Temuera Morrison and Isabel Lucas. Clive currently spends his time between Florida and Sydney, Australia.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CP6V35N5
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Coffeetown Press; 1st edition (February 14, 2024)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 14, 2024
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 706 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 407 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

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Clive Fleury

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Clive Fleury is an award-winning writer of books and screenplays and has worked all over the world as a Film/TV director, writer and producer. He has written five books, most recently Off Season, a murder mystery novel.

Off Season is a fish-out-of-water murder mystery, about a disgraced high-flying detective who is relocated from Sydney to a tiny Australian beach town. Here he discovers that small doesn't mean peaceful and murder doesn't take a holiday in the off season. Fans of who dunnit's, crime thrillers, and cop and detective stories will love this novel.

Clive's other books include 'Kill Code' - a dystopian science fiction novel set in a world facing climate change; ‘Scary Lizzy’ - a novel about an eight year old girl, who befriends an African child ghost – and the teen action adventure book; ‘The Boy Next Door ‘ - a story of what happens when a teenage girl has a crush on her next door neighbor, who isn’t all he seems. He also co-wrote ‘Art Pengriffin and The Curse of The Four’ - a young adult fantasy adventure about a teenage boy who discovers his father was Merlin the Magician.

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  • Lynda Stevens
    5.0 out of 5 stars An engaging sleuth discovering evil in a seaside town
    Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2024
    When Détective Ramesh Ryan loses a case against a gangster, it doesn't take long for his boss to have him shipped out of Sydney to an obscure seaside town, Barton. Surely, trouble can't find him there.

    Wrong. Of course. There are mysterious deaths that turn out to be less innocent than they first seem. There is drug dealing. Big drug dealing, and now it seems the mob is pretty entwined with much of what goes on in this part of Australia. There are unsolved murders from way back that surely have no connection to the present. And then a foot washed up along the
    ocean shore.

    I the mean time, some of the local talent is showing an interest in Ryan, though the reality of being a policeman makes itself felt.
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    There is a rich array of characters within these pages: prickly colleagues, gangsters and their minions, murderous petty thugs. Ryan is an engaging detective, possibly a little inept with the fair sex, but far froom the cynical and trouble trope of the damaged sleuth only marginally morally less ambiguous than the wrong does he is pursuing. Being half Indian he encounters his share of prejudice, and that in itself brings about one of the cruelles twists of fate for a would-be mentee.

    The plot and dialogue flow well, other big twists will await the reader: this thriller is first-class.
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  • frances stearns
    4.0 out of 5 stars Fun read!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2024
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    Finished this...Excellent fun-read page turner that hooks you from page one. Many well developed characters to find attractive, interesting or repugnant. Drenches the reader in a storm of drug-dealing, murderous intrigue and leaves one guessing throughout. Thoroughly enjoyable, easy read. Looking forward to the next Detective Ryan read!!
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  • Wine Lover
    3.0 out of 5 stars Nothing special
    Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2024
    This small-town police procedural takes place in a small Australian beach town. The two main characters (man and woman) are both policemen and both are from racial minorities (East Indian and Chinese). I enjoyed their interaction, bu.t found the overall novel to be somewhat mundane. It seems that there are endless novels of this type with not much setting them apart. There is nothing wrong with this story; however, on the other hand, nothing that really sets it apart.
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  • Nick
    5.0 out of 5 stars Must read
    Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2024
    Thanks to Netgalley for allowing me to read this must read. It caught me from the beginning and I couldn't put this book down. I found the main characters ones that I would relate to. If you want twists, surprises and definitely full of action then this is the book for you.
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  • Shelly
    4.0 out of 5 stars Police Dectecive Mystery
    Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2024
    This is a murder mystery told mainly from the POV of the Police Detective Ryan. He is sent to Barton as a temporary relocation after losing in court.

    The build up to the action part of the story took a while but once the action really starts, it doesn’t stop. I couldn’t put it down.

    There is intrigue, a little romance and plenty of action.

    This is a police detective mystery set in Australia. As someone from the US, this was interesting and I didn’t feel lost. I haven’t always enjoyed stories sent elsewhere especially when the area isn’t described. I need to be able to picture the setting. Fleury doesn’t describe every thing but I was still able to picture the setting.

    Thank you for the complimentary copy of Off Season.
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  • Randy
    4.0 out of 5 stars a book with many characters and many suspects
    Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2024
    This book had so many ebbs and flows that at times I had to put it down to try and figure out why this was important and where the new characters in the chapter fit into the overall direction of the book. It all came together in the end and made sense as to why those scenes were important. The book is about detective Ryan who lost a case against a drug king and was sent to a small town to lay low and figure out what went wrong. Zoe was the young constable who was working at the Barton police station and Sarge was the man in charge. They started off with a death to investigate and the ball just kept rolling. Detective Ryan was used to working alone so working with Zoe was frustrating to both. She wanted to know what he was doing, and he was not used to telling anyone everything he was doing.
    There were murders, drug deals, attempts on Ryans life, a cold case, two sets of bad people coming after Ryan, a lady who showed too much interest in him, just so many moving parts. The story was very good a bit confusing when you wondered why this person was relevant to the story, but it all came out in the end.
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  • Carolina Rolim
    5.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing and Incredibly Clever
    Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2024
    Great build up of suspense, a layered plot, and an enticing protagonist. Takes a lot of turns, which I love. This is definitely a page turner for anyone who loves a good crime mystery
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