{"product_id":"9780007555857_dilemma","title":"Dilemma","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the award-winning Jon Cleary, a novel featuring Sydney detective Scobie Malone. The routine arrest of a fugitive leads to disturbing allegations against a Crown Prosecutor, and the abduction of a child model reveals an ugly side to the world of fashion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Scobie Malone returns to the bush town of Collamundra to apprehend a husband who disappeared after the murder of his wife four years earlier, it seems a cut-and-dried case. But as the trial begins, a key witness recognizes a face in the courtroom, and Scobie finds himself investigating the Crown Prosecutor – an individual revered by colleagues as the perfect family man and a pillar of the community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, Sydney is agog at the abduction of a child model whose freckled face has launched a thousand products. Malone, like everyone else, finds it hard to take the threat seriously – until a body is found. As a devoted father, Scobie is shaken by the murder of a child, but his inquiries reveal that the family life little Lucybelle experienced was a million miles from the settled existence of the Malones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuddenly Malone is embroiled in two cases where, the deeper he probes, the more he wishes he hadn’t. And, having uncovered the truth, he must decide whether to proceed – knowing that if he does, a family will be destroyed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jon Cleary","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47284730265749,"sku":"9780007555857","price":5.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007555857.jpg?v=1776992287","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007555857_dilemma","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}