HOW TO KILL A CLIENT
Joanna Jenkins, Allen & Unwin, $32.99
Perhaps you’re unlucky and there’s a Gavin in your workplace or social circle, shaping the culture. He white-ants. A reputation’s ruined. He takes credit for good work and creates errors which can then be exploited for blackmail.
At home, a mansion in Brisbane’s classiest suburb, Gavin arrives with lipstick on his collar, hits his wife, ignores his young daughters, and the puppy’s fate is too sad to mention. So when Gavin is murdered, Detective Inspector Messer’s suspects run into double figures.
Jenkins delivers a brilliant debut novel which satisfies on many levels. Yes, this how bad things are out there in the jobs world. Good people are turning nasty, or turning a blind eye. Baddies manoeuvre unchecked. Gavin’s lawyers at the Brisbane branch of a
