Dilemma is a 1999 novel from Australian author Jon Cleary.[1]
It is the sixteenth book featuring Sydney detective Scobie Malone.[2]
Synopsis
Malone is called in to investigate a murder but the main suspect disappears and isn't arrested until four years later. At the trial he is being prosecuted by one of Malone's old friends who is implicated in the original murder when new evidence comes to light.
Reviews
Peter Pierce in the Australian Book Review noted: "Dilemma is sprinkled with curious descriptions of the 'she wilted in her body stocking' brand; striking similes – 'a depression as dark as a pocket' – and whimsy: 'some day soon the nation would be a republic'...Cleary's promise of more Malone to come is emphatic: 'Homicide and Serial Offenders go on: murder never stops'. And nor yet, we can be glad to say, has this old trouper."[3]
