Works by
Lindy Cameron
(Writer)

Children

• Trifling with Tricks and Trumps (1995)

Commissioned Work

• Golden Relic (1998)
  Golden Relic was commission by the Museum of Victoria as a lead up to the International Council of Museums triennial conference in Melbourne. The brief was to write a thriller, one chapter at a time, on the Internet. Originally titled Stolen Property on the Web
  
  When Professor Lloyd Marsden is found murdered in the Museum of Victoria, Special Detective Sam Diamond is assigned to catch the killer.
  
  Thrown into a world of obsessive collectors, strange poisons, funerary rites and ancient artefacts, Sam's photographic memory and cryptic crosswords skills are invaluable tools in her investigation. But when archeologist Dr Maggie Tremaine whisks her halfway round the world in pursuit of the truth, Sam finds more questions than answers.
  
  Was the murder an attempt to sabotage the international museum conference? Is the Rites of Life and Death exhibition a front for something more sinister? Why have Marsden's colleagues also died of unnatural causes? And who is the man in the fez following their every move?

Fiction

Kit O'Malley Mysteries

1. Blood Guilt (2005) -- Nominated 2006 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction
   Celia Robinson is paying PI Kit O'Malley big money to find out what Celia's philandering husband Geoffrey is up to with a blonde, a redhead, and entrepreneur Ian Dalkeith and his shady business cohorts.
   
   Enduring a heat wave and fighting the inanimate objects that are out to get her are the hardest parts of Kit's assignment-until a body is found floating in the Robinsons' ornamental fish pond.
   
   After the discovery of another body and a near miss with a homicidal driver, Kit realizes she's getting close to something-even if the truth seems to be that everyone has a secret.

2. Bleeding Hearts (2006)
   Poison pens can draw blood. And that's exactly why TV presenter Rebecca Jones hires private eye Kit O'Malley to investigate the threats against her. But the trouble with being tenacious, tough, and too smart for her own good is that everybody else wants her on their team.
   
   As if trying to keep Rebecca alive and on the air wasn't enough, Kit is beset by a clutch of other people's catastrophes that require her very particular skills to resolve. And since Kit is the gumshoe who can't say no, before she knows it, she is up to her eyes in the worst that Australia's criminal minds can throw her way.
   
   Money laundering, sordid sexual shenanigans, abduction, political sleaze, and murder among Melbourne's movers and shakers threaten to swamp Kit as she picks her way through the morass of double-dealing, treachery, and outright greed. As if that's not enough, the beautiful and sexy Alex Casenove sweeps back into her life, reminding Kit that love is almost as deadly as hate and that murder never happens at a convenient time.
   
   The sequel to the highly acclaimed debut Blood Guilt, Bleeding Hearts is a tightly plotted romp through the dark underbelly of Australia's most cultured city, vibrantly demonstrating that even the heartless bleed.

3. Thicker Than Water (2007 release)
   Kit O'Malley, the Australian PI with the mean right hook, is smarter, tougher, and more dangerous than ever, and she is on the scene when a corpse belonging to a member of a notorious Melbourne crime family is found at her local bar. Asking the right questions of the wrong people sees Kit and her friends dragged into serious danger. Blood Guilt and Bleeding Hearts, the first two Kit O'Malley mysteries, are also available from Bywater Books.