Matrimonial Causes is 1993 Australian crime novel by Peter Corris.
It was the thirteenth novel, and seventeenth book, featuring the author's continuing character Cliff Hardy.
Synopsis While on vacation with his latest girlfiend Hardy tells her about his very first case back in the 1970s. It seemed like a simple divorce case. Hardy was working for a solicitor representing the wife, and his job was to dig the dirt on the husband. But when the husband is shot leaving a building with his new "girlfriend" Hardy finds himself in a fight for his own survival.
Critical reception
Susan Gleason, in a short review of the novel in The Sydney Morning Herald, noted it had "Lots of Sydney colour, clean lines, good plot."
Publication history After the novel's initial publication in 1993, it was reprinted as follows:
Dell Books, USA, 1988 Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2014
See also 1993 in Australian literature
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