Degrees of Connection

Degrees of Connection

Author	Jon Cleary
Country	Australia
Language	English
Series	Scobie Malone
Genre	Novel
Publisher	HarperCollins, Sydney
Publication date	2003
Media type	Print Paperback
Pages	276 pp
ISBN	0-7322-7632-2
OCLC	223765101
Preceded by	The Easy Sin

Degrees of Connection is a 2004 Ned Kelly Award winning novel by the Australian author Jon Cleary. It was the 20th and last entry in the Scobie Malone series. Cleary decided to stop writing crime novels because he felt he was getting stale.^[1]

Synopsis

Scobie Malone as been promoted from inspector to superintendent, while Russ Clements is now head of Homicide. He investigates the murder of the personal assistant to Natalie Shipwood, the CEO of development company Orlando. Malone's son, Tom, seems to have impregnated a girlfriend who is subsequently murdered and his daughter Maureen is an ABC journalist covering the Securities Commission investigation into Orlando.

Awards

Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2004: winner

Notes

Dedication: "For Joy (1922-2003)".

References

↑ Jason Steger, 'Cleary's Has His Fill of Crime' The Age, August 27, 2004 accessed 8 March 2012

External links

Degrees of Connection at AustLit (subscription required)
Review at Australian Book Review, May 2004

Works by Jon Cleary

Novels

1940s	You Can't See 'Round Corners (1947) The Long Shadow (1949)

1950s	Just Let Me Be (1950) The Sundowners (1952) The Climate of Courage (1954) Justin Bayard (1955) The Green Helmet (1957) Back of Sunset (1959)

1960s	North from Thursday (1960) Strike Me Lucky (1961) The Country of Marriage (1962) Forests of the Night (1963) A Flight of Chariots (1963) The Fall of an Eagle (1964) The High Commissioner (1966) The Pulse of Danger (1966) The Long Pursuit (1967) Season of Doubt (1968) Remember Jack Hoxie (1969)

1970s	Helga's Web (1970) Mask of the Andes (1971) Man's Estate (1972) Ransom (1973) The Safe House (1975) Peter's Pence (1975) A Sound of Lightning (1976) High Road to China (1977) Vortex (1978) The Beaufort Sisters (1979)

1980s	A Very Private War (1980) The Faraway Drums (1981) The Golden Sabre (1981) Spearfield's Daughter (1982) The Phoenix Tree (1984) The City of Fading Light (1985) Dragons at the Party (1987) Now and Then, Amen (1988) Babylon South (1989)

1990s	You, the Jury (1990) (reprint of 1950 Just Let Me Be) Murder Song (1990) Pride's Harvest (1991) Dark Summer (1992) Bleak Spring (1993) Autumn Maze (1994) Winter Chill (1995) Endpeace (1996) A Different Turf (1997) Five Ring Circus (1998) Dilemma (1999)

2000s	Bear Pit (2000) Yesterday's Shadow (2001) The Easy Sin (2002) Degrees of Connection (2003) Miss Ambar Regrets (2004) Morning's Gone (2006) Four-Cornered Circle (2007)

Films and TV

Just Let Me Be (1957) (TV)
Dust in the Sun (1958)
The Siege of Pinchgut (1959)
The Sundowners (1960)
The Green Helmet (1961)
Bus Stop (1961) (TV) (2 eps)
Damon and Pythias (1962)
The Diamond Smugglers (1964)
You Can't See 'Round Corners (1967) (TV)
Nobody Runs Forever (The High Commissioner) (1968)
You Can't See 'round Corners (1969)
Sidecar Racers (1975)
High Road to China (1983)
Spearfield's Daughter (1986) (mini series)