Presumed Dead - Knox, Martin
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COULD ONE WOMAN STOP POLITICAL CORRUPTION AND START TRUE DEMOCRACY? Feisty Jane Kenwood is a strong woman councillor and popular public figure in Alexandra City, Southland. Her debating skills are legendary. She is independent and vociferously opposed to a megacasino proposal. When the Council becomes hung, her vote is critical. She disappears and her colleague and friend, Dr Phillip Keane, a forensic scientist, investigates with the help of her zany friends and a novel forensic method. Will they find her alive? Will she recover? Will they be able to stop the casino? Will she be able to…mehr

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COULD ONE WOMAN STOP POLITICAL CORRUPTION AND START TRUE DEMOCRACY? Feisty Jane Kenwood is a strong woman councillor and popular public figure in Alexandra City, Southland. Her debating skills are legendary. She is independent and vociferously opposed to a megacasino proposal. When the Council becomes hung, her vote is critical. She disappears and her colleague and friend, Dr Phillip Keane, a forensic scientist, investigates with the help of her zany friends and a novel forensic method. Will they find her alive? Will she recover? Will they be able to stop the casino? Will she be able to transform the city's fossilised partisan government into the participative democracy she wants? This is crime fiction that will leave you feeling empowered.
Autorenporträt
Martin Knox grew up on a farm in Somerset England. He graduated as a chemical engineer from Birmingham University and worked in the petroleum industry in Canada. He researched alternative systems of government at Imperial College, London. He emigrated to Australia and was employed in mining development. He became a high school teacher and wrote science textbooks published by the Queensland Department of Education.This book is his seventh novel published. He has been writing fiction novels full-time since 2013: speculative, love, politics, crime, sport, totalitarianism and satires. He is involved in public policy-making, has proposed an underground railway for Brisbane and a new paradigm for climate science. He discusses current issues at U3A and has studied philosophy with students at the University of Queensland.He writes letters, plays the guitar, sings badly and walks by the river. He is divorced with children and grandchildren.