Joanna Jenkins
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Did you think no one was watching?
Introducing The Bluff
From the bestselling author of 'How to Kill a Client' comes a page-turning rural thriller of loyalties and lies, murder and greed.
People like Dash didn’t die. He was only what? Mid-thirties? Well off. Adored. By some anyway. World at his feet. Well, Myddle at his feet, which was his world.
Ruth Dawson has taken a break from big city law to fill in for a few months at a mate’s small-town legal practice in Myddle. It’s not what she’s used to...
So when she hears the front door of her office open she’s expecting a weird demand, or a question she doesn’t know the answer to. But it’s Bea Baulderstone's mum..., worried that she hasn’t seen her seventeen-year-old daughter for five days, and Constable Gazza Parker is refusing to report the girl missing
Ruth tries to find Bea, but Myddle is a wall of indifference. Then Dash Rogers is found at his farm gate, dead from a gun shot wound, and suddenly the town is very interested in Bea’s whereabouts.
An unputdownable thriller of deception and greed, The Bluff reveals an enmeshed web of family and community loyalties, set in the lush rural hinterland of east coast Australia.
Praise for The Bluff
‘From small-town intrigue to big-time terror and suspense, The Bluff is utterly compelling.’
Riley James, author of The Chilling
Events and Booking Links
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Upcoming
Wednesday 8 October 2025
10am to 11am
Interview with Chris Hammer at Cleveland Library.
Coming Soon
Past
25 September 2025
Ned Kelly Awards at Brisbane Square Library
In Conversation
15 July 2025
QLD ICON Book Club
In Conversation
25 June 2025
Ben’s Book Club
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In Conversation
22 May 2025
Books on Bywong hosted by Sally Wilson
In Conversation
18 May 2025
The Spot Cooroy Cafe
In Conversation
13 May 2025
Books@Stones, Brisbane
In Conversation
4 May 2025
Sunshine Coast Hinterland Writers Festival Maleny
In Conversation
23 March 2025
The Avid Reader Bookshop
In Conversation
20 March 2025
eDiscovery Collab 4th annual IWD Lunch
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About Joanna Jenkins
Joanna Jenkins grew up on a small farm in country Queensland.
After graduating from the University of Queensland with degrees in English Literature and Law, she practised as a solicitor, including for many years as a partner of an international law firm.
She now writes full-time.
Married with three sons, Joanna lives in Brisbane. Her debut novel, How to Kill a Client, was published in 2023. The Bluff is her second novel.
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How to Kill a Client
Taking on law's old boys club can have deadly results... A gripping thriller from a bold new voice about misogyny, corruption and the legal industry.
Awards
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Shortlisted Best Debut Crime Fiction, Australian Crime Writers Association (2023)
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Shortlisted Best Debut Crime Fiction, Ned Kelly Awards (2023)
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Shortlisted Best Debut Fiction, Danger Awards for Crime Writing (2024)
Everyone is going to say what a great guy and a great lawyer he was. He wasn't. He was a prick … And a shithouse lawyer.'
Gavin Jones is dead at thirty-nine. As an in-house lawyer who controlled millions of dollars in fees per year, he was legal firm Howard Greene's biggest client and wielded that power with manipulative contempt. But he saved his worst behaviour for women, at work and at home.
The partners of Howard Greene relied on his favour to fund their lavish lifestyles. If sycophantic admiration of the man was all it took to secure work from Gavin, that's what they delivered.
But no one liked Gavin. The list of those who suffered from his cruelty was long enough to include pretty much everyone who had contact with him. So who actually killed him?
A fast-paced and wickedly funny thriller about power and revenge set in the pristine towers of capitalism, How to Kill a Client is a scorching debut straight out of tomorrow's headlines.
Praise for How to Kill a Client
‘Nobody knows how to play dirty like a lawyer; Joanna Jenkins gives John Grisham a run for his money.’
Candice Fox, author of The Chase
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