description: Single father and true believer, Murray Whelan thinks the life of a political minder is complicated enough with an ex-wife and intimations of intrigue among the party powerful. But throw in a snap-frozen Turk in a local meat plant -- a stiff in the purest sense of the word -- drugs planted under the bed, fascist funeral rites, a tattooed squatter, a killer car, scams, rackets, break-ins, and blood-sucking parasites, and Murray soon finds things spinning fatally out of control. That's when red-hot Ayisha knocks on his door.Set in a Down Under as familiar as it is wonderfully fresh and strange -- amid ethnic feuds, union shenanigans, and the skirmishes of sexual politics -- Stiff brings back the wise-cracking ace of reluctant detectives a new thriller that is fast and furious and very, very funny.
language: German
title: Künstlerpech.
titlecomplete: Künstlerpech.
genres: Crime, Politics, Detective, Novels, Literature, Humor, Thriller, Fiction, Australia, Mystery
ratings_count: 470
places: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
series: Murray Whelan
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Ned Kelly Award
category: Best Fiction
publisher: Diogenes Verlag, Zürich