With Half Past Dead actor and singer Jane Clifton makes her brilliant debut, combining a devilish grasp of plot and character with an hilarious comic touch.

Ronnie Collins is happily married with a son, to whom she's devoted. She enjoys her job as a designer at Arthouse Fabrics. In fact, Ronnie's life is pretty damn good. Trouble is, she has a massive crush on her workmate Lawrence Konitz. But a bit of harmless office flirtation couldn't hurt anyone…could it? When Ronnie wakes up hungover in Lawrence Konitz's bed, she knows she has made a Big Mistake. When she discovers Lawrence's bloodstained body on the kitchen floor, she knows she's in big trouble. Returning to the scene of the crime an hour later and finding his body gone, things take an unexpected turn for the weird.

Set in Melbourne and Sydney, this is a hugely entertaining novel. Full of hilarious one-liners, and with the endearing Ronnie Collins at its heart, Half Past Dead is a great crime fiction debut.

'Clifton…makes a sparkling debut as a novelist with this spicy thriller, peppered with a seemingly endless string of one-liners.' Adelaide Advertiser