Kill Shot

By: Denholm, Blair

A brutal killing in the mangroves. A detective with everything to prove.

Tough ex-boxer DS Jack Lisbon didn't cross the world for an easy life. Fresh off a troubled career in London, he's barely gained his footing in steamy North Queensland when a mangled corpse washes up on the edge of a mangrove swamp. It looks like what locals blame on crocodiles.

But the wounds tell a different story.

This wasn't nature. It was murder.

And when a champion athlete disappears the same night, police suddenly face a possible double homicide. The list of suspects grows fast, but the tight-knit community of Yorkville closes ranks, and nobody wants to talk.

DS Jack Lisbon and his partner, Detective Claudia Taylor, find themselves digging through a world of grudges, silence, and rising violence as they hunt a killer who's spiralling out of control.

Kill Shot is the first full-length novel in The Fighting Detective series and can be read as a standalone. If you enjoy gritty police procedurals featuring uncompromising, hard-boiled detectives, this series is right up your street.
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Praise for The Fighting Detective series:

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A gritty, fast-paced crime thriller that kept me reading long past bedtime.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Refreshingly different. The Australian setting and relentless action hooked me from page one.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Jack Lisbon is a flawed, compelling detective you can't look away from.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Tense, twisty, and downright addictive. A brilliant start to a series.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Hard-hitting, atmospheric and full of surprises. I couldn't put it down.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1036708233
• ISBN13: 9781036708238
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Vinci Books Ltd
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.8"