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Inspector Hal Challis is called in to investigate when social psychologist Janine McQuarrie is killed, and his investigation takes a surprising turn when Hal learns the victim's husband had been pressuring her to attend spouse-swapping parties, leading Hal to suspect the husband may know more about the murder than he is letting on.

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  • "Snap shot"
  • "Un caso del inspector Hal Challis y la sargento Ellen Destry"@es

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  • "Sex with strangers on a Saturday, family outings in the station wagon on Tuesday morning. Winter may be closing in on the coastal community of Waterloo, but the residents have their own ways of keeping warm. When Janine McQuarrie is shot dead in a country lane while her daughter looks on, her exotic social life is an obvious factor in the investigation. But for D.I. Hal challis and Sergeant Ellen Destry, there are other complications. such as Janine's father-in-law: Superintendent McQuarrie, buresucrat, golfer and toady. Challis and Destry's boss."
  • "Inspector Hal Challis is called in to investigate when social psychologist Janine McQuarrie is killed, and his investigation takes a surprising turn when Hal learns the victim's husband had been pressuring her to attend spouse-swapping parties, leading Hal to suspect the husband may know more about the murder than he is letting on."@en
  • "Inspector Hal Challis is called in to investigate when social psychologist Janine McQuarrie is killed, and his investigation takes a surprising turn when Hal learns the victim's husband had been pressuring her to attend spouse-swapping parties, leading Hal to suspect the husband may know more about the murder than he is letting on."
  • "Praise for Garry Disher: "A first-rate Australian author."'The New York Times Book Review "A 'down under' atmosphere that most American readers will find unique."'Plain Dealer It had taken months for Janine McQuarrie to succumb to her husband's pressure to have sex with strangers at suburban spouse-swapping parties. But after attending a few such events on the Mornington Peninsula, this Australian social psychologist rebels. And then, driving with her young daughter one day, she gets out of her car to ask directions from another driver, is killed. The little girl escapes when the gunman's pistol misfires. Inspector Hal Challis, to whose Crime Investigation Unit the case falls, is thwarted in his efforts by his boss. The dead woman was Superintendent McQuarrie's daughter-in-law. He seems to be more interested in protecting his son than in finding his daughter-in-law's murderer. Who might have a motive to kill this attractive young wife and mother' One of her clients' One of the swingers she'd gotten together with at a party' Or, the obvious suspect, her husband' The villain turns out to be someone Challis never would have expected. From the Hardcover edition."
  • "Australian police detective, Hal Challis, becomes involved in a case where his boss seems more interested in protecting his son than in finding his daughter-in-law's murderer."
  • "Australian police detective, Hal Challis, becomes involved in a case where his boss seems more interested in protecting his son than in finding his daughter's-in-law murderer."
  • "The third Challis & Destry novel. The neat suburban homes of the peninsula seem an unlikely setting for sex parties, blackmail and murder. When Detective Inspector Hal Challis investigates the brutal killing of Janine McQuarrie, his progress is hampered by a web of lies. Everybody has something to hide. And someone is determined to kill again."@en

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  • "Fiction"@en
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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
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  • "Schnappschuss : ein Inspector Challis roman"
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  • "Schnappschuss : ein Inspector-Challis-Roman"
  • "Schnappschuss ein Inspector-Challis-Roman"
  • "Snapshot : a Challis & Destry novel"
  • "Schnappschuss : ein Inspector Challis Roman"
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