Maureen O'Brien

A John Bright Mystery

Close-Up on Death (Sep-1989)

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  The Unremarkable Effie Lyons
  

  • Nov-2025
  • / General Fiction
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  This never started out to be a love story, and it's not. Well not a traditional love story, anyway. Sometimes a story evolves in ways the author never imagined! So it is with Effie Lyons who describes herself as an unremarkable woman with an unremark...

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  Road Trip
  

  • Sep-2025
  • / General Fiction
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  Retired journalist Annie has recovered from one helluva year and is enjoying an end of year break with her buddies Beebs and Jumbo. The trio were caught up in a mystery last year which started as an unfortunate accident and developed into a case whic...

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  Between the Lines
  

  • Jul-2025
  • / General Fiction
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  This story is a slice of life set in a local lending library. A place where a cross section of residents from the community frequent the facility, ostensibly to borrow books.  However, as we get to know the individual characters, we discove...

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  Meet Me at La Jazz
  

  • Apr-2025
  • / General Fiction
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  Meet Me at La Jazz is a comedy/drama is set in a seaside town in northern NSW. It is based around a cafe/ restaurant and a group of its regular patrons. In the cafe, tables are 'manned' by a varied mix of personalities who meet, interact, reveal...

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  Table Manners
  

  • May-2020
  • / Contemporary Romance
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  La Jazz Café and Restaurant is an institution in town. It's watched three generations grow, develop, leave and return, and it could write a book of stories. Oh wait, it did! It can tell you about Arthur, about to complete his circle of lif...

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  Purgatory behind the Wire
  

  • Jan-2008
  • / General Fiction
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  When timid housewife Aimy O'Neal visits Janet Lansing, incarcerated at Western State Mental Hospital for causing the death of her children under the stress of postpartum psychosis, secrets are revealed; ones that are keeping them both prisoners of th...

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  B-Mother
  

  • Feb-2007
  • / General Fiction
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  Hillary Birdsong's idyllic New England childhood is brought to a sudden halt by the death of her beloved older brother. Brokenhearted and emotionally abandoned by her mother, Hillary consoles herself with city boy Miles, and at sixteen finds herself ...

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  Unauthorized Departure
  

  • Aug-2003
  • / Mystery
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  When DI John Bright leaves England to escape the aftermath of a murder investigation, the last thing he expects is to become embroiled in another one. Detective Inspector John Bright has never seen much going in holidays abroad, and he's certainly...

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  Revenge
  

  • Sep-2001
  • / General Fiction
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  An arson attack on the home of a journalist seems motiveless, then Inspector John Bright discovers the reporter was having an affair, that his ex-wife had links to the drug trade and that he had been close to publishing articles exposing police corru...

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  Stripper Lessons
  

  • Jul-1997
  • / Erotica
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  Deadly Reflection
  

  • Jan-1995
  • / Suspense
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  Close-Up on Death
  

  • Sep-1989
  • / Law Enforcement
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  A John Bright Mystery
  

  SPLIT IMAGE Actress Liza Drew was loved by everyone--friends, family, her lover, Paul, and her oldest friend Millie Hale who has the horrible luck to discover Liza's mutilated corpse. Ironically, upon Liza's death, Millie's and Paul's careers tak...

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  Dead Innocent
  

  • / General Fiction
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  Loose Threads
  

  • / General Fiction
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  Synopsis - Loose ThreadsAnnie is a retired journalist.  But retired doesn't mean she's rusted out!  Her investigative instincts remain as sharp as ever. So when she unexpectedly finds notice of a death in another state and realises it is a ...

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  Mask of Betrayal
  

  • / General Fiction
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  Unauthorised Departure
  

  • / Contemporary Romance
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