Greg Tuck - Libros y biografía

An action that former Chief Inspector, now retired Sarge Downs, had done many years before came back to haunt him in a deadly way. With his family in danger, he contacted Cairns police station's CIB and...

The Rhinogres are a mercenary army of creatures that are the cross between rhinoceroses and ogres. Hobgoblins are also members of the army. They live in mediaeval times and are based in the Caucasus Mountains...

As people age, their perceptions of things around them change. Many older people say that they become more fine tuned. The younger generation think however that means narrower. Silly Old Bugger is a collection...

The fictional character from Between the Wars series Michael Harrington began writing poetry when he first met Mary Evans, a teenage girl he met in the 1930's at a joint school dance In Melbourne, Australia....

Hammerton is a mining town in West Virginia. Built in a naturally formed crater, it is only accessible via a train tunnel. A mine collapse in the late nineteen forties saw the community reduced to poverty....

Politics in Australia offers up some very strange characters who become even stranger when elected. This book contains parodies of well-known songs about the weird antics that they get up to and the awkward...

Dominated by a federal government, in a three-tier system of government, Australian politics is based on a constitution written in the 1890's that is extremely difficult to change via referendums. It...

Dominated by a federal government, in a three-tier system of government, Australian politics is based on a constitution written in the 1890's that is extremely difficult to change via referendums. It...

A private jet crashes into the hillside above Cairns. Bodies are retrieved and the plane contents are examined. All is not as it should be and Detective Chief Inspector "Sarge" Downs and Detective Sergeant...

While on a holiday Detective Inspector "Sarge" Downs, his partner Sarah, their daughter Katie and Sarge's Uncle Ray accidentally come across a drug trafficking business that has links back to Cairns where...

Washed up in a storm, a part of a human body leads Detective Inspector "Sarge" Downs and Detective Senior Sergeant Nat Johns of the Criminal Investigation Branch based in Cairns, Queensland down to Melbourne...

Just after the birth of his second child, Detective Inspector "Sarge" Downs of the Queensland police based in Cairns receives a mysterious parcel. In it he finds various accounts of the role his grandfather,...

Twin brothers on two sides of the world are kidnapped at the same time sparking investigations in both Cairns in Northern Queensland and Inverness in Scotland. Two police forces are joined in trying to...

Mary Evans, having survived living on the streets in Melbourne, Australia in the 1920's with her mother and her brother, has settled into becoming part of the family of the Hansens where her mother now...

Bernard Wilfred Downs, a Detective Inspector in the Queensland Police force preferred to be called Sarge by everyone. He was called "Young 'un" by his uncle; "Short Arse" by his mates when he was much...

In late 2012 I bought an Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite in poor condition, rusty and in pieces. Most of its parts were there. Most of my brain cells weren't for then I spent lots of money, time and effort...

Les Crétineux are an army of misfits that wandered their way around northern Europe in search of employment in medieval times. They head even further north seeking a reward from a supposedly captured...

Coral Voyager, a large cruise ship, is confronted by a storm just of the north Queensland coast. It finally runs aground just south of Cairns. A massive rescue effort gets underway and all passengers...

After the exploits dealing with police corruption, (see "You Don't Say" in the Downs Crime Mystery series) Detective Inspector "Sarge" Downs from Cairns was looking for a break. However, while on a holiday...

In Part 3, Mary Evans is about to graduate from secondary school and enter into university which was not a very common thing for young women during the late 1930's in Melbourne, Australia.She is still...

A somewhat jaded teacher is posted to a one teacher rural school, high up in the mountains in Victoria, Australia. Douglasville was originally a gold mining town and then became a timber town. A series...

Dominated by a federal government, in a three-tier system of government, Australian politics is based on a constitution written in the 1890's that is extremely difficult to change via referendums. It...

Everybody dies. That's the cold hard reality of life. Not everyone gets forewarning and time to think about it, and what, if anything, comes next. After undergoing treatment for brain cancer, a patient...

It was just a form, a piece of paper with a few boxes to tick and what he thought were meaningless words. No-one reads these things. He had no idea why people even bothered. Filling it in as some sort...

The year is 1937 and just after the first semester/Christmas break, a fight between two boarding final year law students in Balliol College, Oxford University has come to the attention of the master,...