GOOD MONEY
Book ID/图书代码： 11980515B84482
English Summary/英文概要： Introducing Stella Hardy, a wise-cracking social worker with a bad diet and a thirst for social justice, good laksa, and alcohol.
Stella’s phone rings. A young African boy, the son of one of her clients, has been murdered in a dingy back alley. Stella, in her forties and running low on empathy, heads into the night to comfort the grieving mother. But when she gets there, she makes a discovery that has the potential to uncover something terrible from her past — something she thought she’d gotten away with.
Then Stella’s neighbour Tania mysteriously vanishes. When Stella learns that Tania is the heir to a billion-dollar mining empire, Stella realises her glamorous young friend might have had more up her sleeve than just a perfectly toned arm.
Who is behind her disappearance?
Enlisting the help of her friend, Senior Constable Phuong Nguyen, Stella’s investigation draws her further and further into a dark world of drug dealers, sociopaths, and killers, such as the enigmatic Mr Funsail, whose name makes even hardened criminals run for cover.
One thing is clear: Stella needs to find answers fast — before the people she’s looking for find her instead.
Set in the bustling, multicultural inner-west of Melbourne, Good Money reveals a daring and exciting new voice in Australian crime fiction.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 小说主角Stella Hardy是个爱说风凉话的社工。饮食习惯很差，但渴望社会正义，喜欢美味的叻沙，也爱喝酒。
某天，Stella接到一通电话。她一位客户的儿子被谋杀了。40多岁的Stella当晚便前往安抚悲痛欲绝的母亲。但她到达那里后，发现自己可能因此揭开过去的可怕秘密——这个她一度以为自己已经摆脱的秘密。
随后，Stella的邻居Tania神秘地消失了。而后Stella得知Tania是几十亿矿产帝国的继承人……谁是导致她消失的幕后黑手？
在她的朋友，高级警官Phuong Nguyen的帮助下，Stella的调查深入到了一个充斥着毒贩、反社会者、杀手的黑暗世界。Stella必须在被敌人发现之前尽快找出真相。这部小说为澳大利亚犯罪小说注入了新鲜血液。9LYR)
Awards/获奖情况：“独特、引人入胜、高品质的犯罪小说。作为一名勇敢的新作家，Green做了伟大的犯罪小说家该做的——讲述了一个非常棒的故事。”——Honey Brown，获奖作家‘Unique, intriguing, quality crime. Green is an assured and bold new author doing already what great crime novelists do — delivering a bloody good story.’ — Honey Brown, award-winning author of After the Darkness and Through the Cracks
‘Stella Hardy is certainly a witty and engaging heroine, although as a Saints supporter clearly doomed. A satisfying romp through corporate and political corruption, love, drugs, sex and the Western suburbs.’— Annie Hauxwell, author of the Catherine Berlin thriller series
About the Author/作者介绍： J.M. Green曾在皇家墨尔本理工大学学习专业写作。她的首部小说《良币》的未出版手稿入选2014年维多利亚总理文学奖短名单。她目前居住在墨尔本西部郊区。
J.M. Green studied professional writing at RMIT. Good Money, her first novel, was shortlisted for the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. She lives in Melbourne’s western suburbs.
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