{"product_id":"the-afterlife-of-harry-playford-steven-carroll","title":"The Afterlife Of Harry Playford - Steven Carroll","description":"\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e.cs13DCAC4{text-align:left;margin:12pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0pt} .cs338A614{text-align:left;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0pt} .cs47DB3EB{12pt;font-weight:normal;color:#181B21;font-style:italic;Segoe UI;} .cs3388614{text-align:left;margin:0pt 0pt 10pt 0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0pt} .csDF76FDB{12pt;font-weight:normal;color:#181B21;font-style:normal;Segoe UI;}\u003c\/style\u003e\r\n\t\r\n\t\u003cp class=\"cs13DCAC4\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"_dx_frag_StartFragment\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csDF76FDB\"\u003eFrom acclaimed writer Steven Carroll, comes the second in his new series of post-war literary crime novels featuring Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs338A614\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs47DB3EB\"\u003e'What does a pile of clothes left on a deserted beach tell you? It's a cold midwinter Monday. Seaweed and shells litter the flat expanse of sand. There is a light wind, the sea more disgruntled than choppy, the tide out. And there amongst it, the neat pile of clothes. Almost like a coded message waiting to be deciphered.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs338A614\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csDF76FDB\"\u003eQueenscliff, Victoria, 1951: A man has disappeared, leaving only a pile of neatly folded clothes on a beach. Missing, presumed drowned. But for Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter, newly emigrated from England, it's far from an open-and-shut case. Because this is no ordinary man. Harry Playford is a successful politician, a charming man who is a rising ministerial star, a possible contender for the top job, who leaves behind a beautiful wife - and a mistress. There could be a simple explanation. But, these murky days of the Cold War, in a time of rising mistrust and suspicion, spies and espionage, Stephen can't throw off his feeling that something's definitely not right. About the whole business.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs3388614\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csDF76FDB\"\u003eFrom one of Australia's finest, most critically acclaimed writers, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs47DB3EB\"\u003eThe Afterlife of Harry Playford\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csDF76FDB\"\u003e is an absorbing, poignant and moving novel of hard choices and past mistakes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paperplay Inverloch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49717325955349,"sku":"9781460764596","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/9303\/9201\/files\/9781460764596_1.jpg?v=1769476759","url":"https:\/\/www.paperplay.com.au\/products\/the-afterlife-of-harry-playford-steven-carroll","provider":"Paperplay Inverloch","version":"1.0","type":"link"}