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Standalone Novels

Three standalone thrillers — each its own world, each its own voice. Available now on Amazon Kindle Unlimited.

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The Green Whistle

A Mick Pushman Thriller · Paul Lanigan

"I have a rule about dead patients. The rule is: find out why."

Mick Pushman is an air ambulance paramedic working Melbourne's emergency retrieval network — a man who reads patients the way other people read rooms, trained by years of pressure to find the signal inside the noise. When a routine call to the Grampians puts him in contact with a man whose injury doesn't add up, Mick starts pulling at a thread that leads somewhere he wasn't supposed to find: a criminal network running controlled drugs through the city's ambulance dispatch system, using standard emergency equipment as its identifier.

The green whistle — a Penthrox inhaler, the kind Mick carries on every job — turns out to be more than pain relief. Someone has been using it as a signal. And the person running the signal is someone the network trusts completely, because she's been trusted completely for years.

A quiet, procedural thriller set entirely inside the machinery of emergency medicine — the rosters, the protocols, the institutional habits that make a system work and the single point of failure that can bring it down.

"The voice is one of the strongest in recent Australian crime fiction — analytical, inhabited, and consistently in register."

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Flood Acres: The Perfect Storm

A Tim Patterson Thriller · Book One · Paul Lanigan

"When three storms converge on a Melbourne golf club — a booking failure, a once-in-a-generation flood, and a hidden conspiracy that predates both — board director Tim Patterson must dismantle a decade of deliberate concealment before the institution itself is dismantled around him."

It begins with a capacity failure. On a Saturday morning in autumn, eleven members of Green Acres Golf Club arrive before sunrise and still can't get a game. The fix takes six minutes. The fallout takes six months — because Tim Patterson doesn't let things sit.

Before the booking question can be answered, the Yarra River answers a larger one. A convergence of three low-pressure systems pushes sixty-four megalitres of water across the course in a single night. The damage is total. The rebuild will cost six point four million dollars. The club's reserves stand at seven million. There is no flood insurance.

In the wreckage, Patto begins finding things that were hidden long before the water rose — a buried engineering report, an undisclosed supply contract, and a course superintendent who has been controlling what the board sees for nine years. Not from malice. From the kind of institutional protection that starts with one decision you can't walk back.

"For readers of John Grisham and Michael Lewis — a thriller that arrives via a committee room rather than a car chase."

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The Street Library

A Sue Little Thriller · Paul Lanigan

"She has three rules. Walk every day. Notice everything. Trust no coincidence."

Sue Little used to run informants for the Australian Federal Police — men and women whose lives depended on her reading a street the way other people read a room. Now she's on twelve months' parental leave, pushing a pram through the quiet, leafy streets of Melbourne's Camberwell and Surrey Hills, with nothing left to watch but her own neighbourhood.

Which is exactly the problem.

Because the little street library outside the local kindergarten — the kind of harmless timber box every suburb has, take a book, leave a book — isn't harmless at all. Someone is rearranging it. A crime paperback turned the wrong way. A gardening guide left flat when it should stand upright. A pattern hiding in plain sight, written in a grammar Sue recognises with a jolt she can't explain away: it's hers. A dead-drop protocol she built years ago, for one source, for one reason, that was never supposed to be used again.

A hydroponic grow house is about to be raided two streets over. A diplomatic car keeps idling outside the kindergarten gate. And somewhere in the city, a man Sue once promised to protect is still checking a book box for an answer that stopped coming a long time ago.

"A quiet, procedural thriller about the things hidden in the most ordinary corners of suburban life — and the woman trained to notice them."

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