Kill Shot

A brutal murder. A missing athlete. A detective with everything to prove.

Working his first homicide case since relocating from the United Kingdom, Detective Sergeant Jack Lisbon must prove he’s got what it takes to perform in the heat of tropical Northern Australia.

A mutilated body washes up on the edge of a mangrove forest with wounds in keeping with a frenzied crocodile attack, which, to begin with, seems a straightforward incident--death by misadventure.

However, when Lisbon and his partner Detective Claudia Taylor investigate further, all signs point towards a premeditated, vicious murder. The case takes another sinister turn when a champion athlete vanishes, forcing the police to consider the possibility of a double homicide.

As the list of suspects grows, the detectives find themselves up against a wall of silence in the tight-knit community of Yorkville--no one wants to talk, and the killer remains elusive.

With time running out, can Lisbon rise to the challenge and bring the perpetrator to justice?

Kill Shot is the gripping first installment of Blair Denholm’s The Fighting Detective series, a gritty, hard-boiled Australian police procedural that will keep readers guessing until the very end.

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Praise for The Fighting Detective series:

★★★★★ A real page-turner!

★★★★★ An excellent crime story.

★★★★★ A Thriller of a Thriller.

★★★★★ Kill Shot is an action-packed, adrenaline fueled, rollercoaster thrill ride.

★★★★★ Great whodunit!

★★★★★ Readers looking for a real page-turner have found it here!

★★★★★ Full-bodied excitement throughout!

BLAIR DENHOLM is a born-and-bred Australian crime fiction writer whose previous jobs have been as varied as translator, debt collector, technology researcher, banking and insurance consultant, and even car-wash attendant. Over the years he has lived and worked in New York, Moscow, Munich, Abu Dhabi and Australia. His life-long love of sports is reflected in the plots of the Fighting Detective series.

Denholm’s flagship series, The Fighting Detective, stars ex-boxer Detective Sergeant Jack Lisbon and is set in the steamy tropics of North Queensland, Australia. The series features heavy doses of noir crime with a vigilante justice twist. So far there are eight novels and one prequel novella in the series, with more in the pipeline.

Denholm’s debut novel, SOLD, is the first in a noir trilogy featuring the detestable yet lovable one-man wrecking ball Gary Braswell. The book was long-listed for movie adaptation by Screen Queensland in 2019. The other books in this series are Sold to the Devil and Sold Dirt Cheap.

Denholm has also written two thriller novels set in Russia. Captain Viktor Voloshin is a hard-boiled investigator who has to fight the establishment in order for justice to be served in his own special way. The first in this series, Revolution Day, was published in 2021, with the follow-up, The Defector, released in 2024. One more book will round off this series.

In 2024, Denholm will be signing on with UK-based publisher Vinci Books.

Blair Denholm grew up in suburban Brisbane, Queensland. After two lengthy stints in Tasmania, he now resides in the relatively cooler climes of the Southern Downs region of Queensland with his partner, Sandra, and faithful dog, Bruno.