Beachdaze

, #6

Paperback, 299 pages

English language

Published by Campanile Publishing.

ISBN:
978-0-6450991-0-2
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4 stars (1 review)

He’d had been given enough warnings. He simply didn’t expect it to happen quite this soon.

Only a heart attack could make Peter Clancy leave his beloved London and the excitement of his work as an investigative journalist. He moves to a quiet coastal town in Victoria, the perfect place to write a new book while avoiding all bad influences.

Serenity Bay turns out to be anything but quiet—the neighbours are noisy or nosy, getting under his skin or into his pants. Not even a surprise reunion with an old friend can turn this nightmare into the peaceful retreat Peter was seeking, intent as she is on reuniting him with at least one bad influence.

Of course, Peter doesn’t need much persuasion to resume his vices—old habits die hard, and before long Peter is poking his nose into the affairs (in all senses) of not only his neighbours but the …

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Review - Beachdaze

4 stars

Book six in the Peter Clancy series, set in the world of investigative journalism, BEACHDAZE sees Peter back in Australia, out of the day-to-day newspaper game and up to his elbows in neighbourhood dispute from the moment he sets foot in his new home.

Readers of the earlier books in the series will find the idea that Clancy has given up the high-octane world of investigative journalism in swinging London slightly surprising. He got there via an interesting route, starting out his reporting days on the old Truth newspaper in Melbourne, Australia (denizens of the state of Victoria, of an age sufficient enough to remember the Truth, will recall clearly the sometime gulf between the publication's title and it's content, although really it was a tabloid that launched a number of very high profile careers in real life).

Clancy's return to Australia has been precipitated by a health crisis, and …