She didn’t want this to happen to other working girls.

She was going to report the incident to the police. She wanted to memorise it, because she was about to do the unthinkable. He produced his identification badge and she tried to read his name. To add to the humiliation, when he had finished with her, several of his colleagues emerged from closets and doorways where they had been hiding, watching while their friend degraded her. SHE DISCOVERED, SHORTLY AFTER, that the man who had just raped her was a policeman. And it's all true.’ The Chronicleįor the gang – Katie, Finnigan, Bridie Rose and ‘Hailed as the most explosive book of 2013 – a riveting epic and unrelenting tour-de-force which will shock a nation. ‘Three Crooked Kings paints a compellingly dark picture.’ Sydney Morning Herald ‘A fascinating account of the corruption and the power struggles within the Queensland Police.’ Weekend Australian His bestselling first volume of the Lewis Trilogy – Three Crooked Kings – won the John Oxley Library Award 2013, and was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards Queensland Book of the Year and the Waverley Library NIB Award for non-fiction. His non-fiction titles include Brisbane and, as editor, Fear, Faith and Hope: Remembering the Long Wet Summer of 2010–2011. His novels include The Motorcycle Café, The Pillow Fight and The Trout Opera. Matthew Condon is an award-winning author of several novels, works of non-fiction, and is the two-time winner of the Steele Rudd Award for short fiction.

The Toe Tag Quintet by Matthew Condon