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Voss takes in every detail as he picks through the crime scene, but this isn't just any crime scene, he knows the victims. The killers have taken their time. Queen's Counsel Luke Peters is covered in hundreds of small incisions. Voss moves behind the second victim and studies her position. There has to be a reason why whoever did this, made Estelle witness her husband's torture.The small tattoo on her right shoulder rushes back a memory and he wants to smile. Estelle had insisted he pay for it during the first week of their honeymoon. He pictured her smiling and twisting almost dancing. Looking back over her shoulder and trying to catch the reflection of it in a shop window. His name and hers joined by a heart. It was the happiest he'd seen her and Estelle had never removed it, a fact that must have galled the high-flying defence lawyer. Voss steps away and allows his smile to show.A few months earlier, Estelle changed her will and unknown to everyone, named Voss as beneficiary. It's a complication that sees him as a possible suspect and he is removed from the case. Without a team to help clear his name, Voss cons Eddie, a down and out tech guru, to help.However, Eddie's passion for technology is distracting and Voss wishes he hadn't let himself get sucked into this whirlpool of technical sludge. Eddie develops a phone app, creating a virtual time machine that can backtrack a suspect's movements. Voss unsure of his team's progress, agrees to a hit and run hack of the police data base.Voss insists Eddie the vagrant cleans up and moves inside. They might share an Odd Couple dynamic, but it's their competitive spirit that drives the investigation forward.Voss's judgment is clouded by refusing to see anyone other than Luke Peters being the reason behind the continuing murder count. Peters was never seen as someone dripping with morals and Voss believes that whatever got them killed, is solely down to him. When another murder victim has links to Estelle, her mother Donna, makes Voss see past the romantic image he has of her. Donna, a forensic accountant insists joining him to piece the case together.The Peters' company, Estelle International appears to be built on the fashion industry. However, Voss and his companions are finding that the business reaches deeper. Supplying modelling talent to everything from high fashion, to the porn industry and even prostitution is a driver behind Estelle Peters' wealth. However, her it's her skills as a procurer, that have made her influential across all political and business spectrums. No longer the wide-eyed girl Voss married all those years ago. Estelle Peters had become a woman of power and influence.Convinced that someone above Superintendent Una Knight is causing undue interference in the Peters' case. And unable to do anything about it, Voss calls on a mob boss for information. He learns that no hit has been ordered for the killings. and a little more than he wanted to. Eddie is not who he said he is.Bullets found in two high class escorts have come from the weapon Voss turned in when suspended, however investigating officers have vision of the Assistant Commissioner pilfering the pistol.Arresting an Assistant Commissioner is a big news event, and the police media department decide to demonstrate their organisation is proactive in their quest toward equal opportunity. They insist Detective Sergeant, Lucy Nguyen make the arrest, and the press have been invited to offer live broadcast.Before the case concludes, Canberra has eleven people murdered by two separate killers and a cold case unearthed.

No one played a bigger part in driving Ford Tractors to market leadership in Australia during the eighties than Noel Howard and in his memoir he tells author Terry L Probert about the reasons for decisions taken both in Australia and World Headquarters in Dearborn that led to the mighty name of Ford disappearing from the tractor market by the mid nineties. NOEL exposes the internal tension between him and other Ford executives both above and below his pay-scale as everyone snatched at the spoils as Ford and New Holland Management tried to deliver an equitable outcome. Decisions taken may not have fallen Noel's way and not one to easily forgive a wrong doing, he explains how he hit back at his adversaries with a competitive product. However, this is much more than a story about the ugly breakup of Ford and New Holland, much more.From his earliest of memories, Noel seemed to be driven to succeed and as much as it is an interesting story, NOEL could also be a textbook for a marketing student to follow. Starting with his mother teaching him about presentation as she dipped yeast-buns in sugar syrup and explaining how making them look attractive added to their profit for the family bakery. The love he had for his mother is evident in the way he talks about her and yet he understood also how hard she worked to protect the family name, scolding him for completing a daredevil flying act while still a teenager. Although winds through the story, Noel was sent away to school at a very early age to improve his schooling and put him in the way of opportunity whenever it might present itself.From a child attending a one room school in Kiewa to becoming 1973 the youngest general manager within the Ford Motor Company World. His life is littered with examples of hard work, innovation, dogged determination and the need to build great networks. Able to reach people deep within the Australian government, or being on good terms with people inside the Ford family, Noel was at ease with the common man and didn't know how much respect or admiration his dealers held him in.NOEL an Authorised Memoir, is about leadership, integrity, guts, determination and team work. This is a book for people who may wish to reminisce about a past era, or those who want to lead an organisation as much as it is about the history of Australia's farm machinery industry in the last half of the Twentieth Century. A book for everyone.

Holding the Mint receipt up to the light, Joe scans it again searching for answers, but there is only one verse of a childish rhyme scrawled on the back. His father's constant taunting him with it gave him nightmares as a kid and now, it's again running an endless loop in his mind. Why would Les have an assay receipt from the Perth Mint anyway? It looks genuine, and registered as mined by him in the Orroroo district, means the gold was his. So why wouldn't the cranky old drunk just come out and tell him about it before he died, or was this just another of his dead father's ways to keep niggling, taunting his only son for years after he'd gone. Besides, if there is a gold mine on Gillespie land, where is it now? Forty years after burying a man he came to hate, Les's last verse comes flashing back, bringing with it only the harsh memories of anger. No space for love, just a son's memory of the hundreds of lashings that came from a liquor drenched tongue are now ringing in his ears. He thought he had put it all behind him. However, Les was taunting him again and finding his note now was making Joe hate him even more. What did the rhyme mean and why didn't the old bastard say anything? Believing there are riches to be had, someone is prepared to do whatever it takes to sieze them. Powerful and conniving, these people think nothing of bribing politicians or police and they will do everything they can to run Joe off his land. All they have to do is peel off the Gillespie's topsoil and steal their gold from beneath it. That might be their plan, but Joe Gillespie isn't one who gives in easily.