The Easy Sin

By Jon Cleary

From the award-winning Jon Cleary, a novel featuring Sydney detective, Scobie Malone. The time has come for Scobie Malone to leave the Homicide and Serial Offenders Unit of the Sydney police, and his last investigation could be the most bizarre case ever to cross his desk.

The time has come for Scobie Malone to leave the Homicide and Serial Offenders Unit of the Sydney police, and his last investigation could be the most bizarre case ever to cross his desk.

Called in when a housemaid is found dead in a dotcom millionaire’s penthouse, Scobie suspects he’s dealing with a kidnap that’s gone wrong. In fact, it couldn’t have gone more wrong. The kidnappers thought they had grabbed the millionaire’s girlfriend – how were they supposed to know he liked slipping into her designer dresses when she wasn’t around?

The plot thickens further when it is revealed that the dotcom bubble has burst, leaving the erstwhile millionaire in debt to the Yakuza and Scobie on the trail of some old adversaries. Throw in the ex-wife, a mistress or two, and the mother of all outlaws, and you have a case that would confound the greatest detective and entertain the most discerning of readers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins UK
• Release date: Jul 17, 2014
• ISBN: 9780007554157

Jon Cleary

Jon Cleary, who died in July 2010, was the author of over fifty novels, including The High Commissioner, which was the first in a popular detective fiction series featuring Sydney Police Inspector Scobie Malone. In 1996 he was awarded the Inaugural Ned Kelly Award for his lifetime contribution to crime fiction in Australia. His last novel,Four Cornered Circle, was published in 2007.

Reviews for The Easy Sin

[balthazar0lawson · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

This is the 19th of 20 books to feature Inspector Scobie Malone. He is nearing the end of his career and even contemplates retirement in this book. And it's this undertone to the whole story that is a bit of draw back to enjoying this book entirely. He is rather reflective through out the entire story and this wouldn't be so bad if this was the 19th book I had read in the series, but it's been years since I've read one.

For some reason it didn't all fit and flow together for me and although I enjoyed reading an Australian based book, it was not the best and I can only give it 2/5.