''Silent Kill'' is 2014 Australian novel by

Peter Corris Peter Robert Corris (8 May 1942 – 30 August 2018) was an Australian academic, historian, journalist and a novelist of historical and crime fiction. As crime fiction writer, he was described as "the Godfather of contemporary Australian crime-w ...

featuring private detective Cliff Hardy. It was the 39th in the series.

Premise

Cliff Hardy is hired to be bodyguard of a politician.

Reception

The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' wrote "Corris has always had his finger on the political pulse but never more so than in this Hardy outing, which manages to resonate both with the political impulses of a whistleblower in the Assange mode, and the more recent ICAC inquiry into government corruption in New South Wales. This is the best kind of crime fiction, holding a mirror up to the muddled times in which we live to reveal a not altogether flattering reflection."

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2014 Australian novels Australian crime novels