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1 y separately published work icon Not What You Expect Kim O'Toole , Penrith : Kim O'Toole , 2017 17912936 2017 selected work short story 'A spacecraft traveling at close to the speed of light is about to collide with the sun because of a computer error. MÜLLER’S REVENGE: A physicist comes up with a unique way of punishing the businessman responsible for his son’s death. KALEIDOSCOPE: In the distant future an engineer risks capital punishment by building a sophisticated robot. OLD BOB: A grandfather solves a fifty-year-old mystery when he takes his grandsons on a picnic. THEY DON’T EVEN LEAVE A DENT: A homeless man believes he has solved a serial murder case. DEAD AND BURIED: A man kills his partner moments before police arrive. A FRIEND FOR LISA: A woman finds a cure for her loneliness.' (Publication summary)
 
1 y separately published work icon The Spider's Nest Kim O'Toole , Penrith : Kim O'Toole , 2017 17912178 2017 single work novel thriller science fiction 'Earth is now seriously threatened by a scourge that has plagued it for centuries: human-directed environmental destruction. But one man, a terminally ill businessman with almost unlimited resources at his command, has a plan to fix the problem. IT expert Kaye Richards is putting her husband’s suicide behind her when she comes upon and hacks a secret email implicating her employer in Frank’s death. Oscar Theodor Brecht, a brilliant engineer and without doubt the world’s most powerful businessman, may have arranged his murder. Her search for proof takes her to a resort island in the Coral Sea where she meets and falls for Jack McEwen, an American insurance investigator on the trail of stolen microprocessors. Before long, they are both caught up in Brecht’s plans. He has been using a nearby island, Jacob 2, to work on a secret the director of the National Reconnaissance Office in Washington believes is “a Pandora's Box with a technology that, once released, no force on earth will be able to stop”. And in the last minutes of Brecht’s life that is what happens, with Kaye and Jack and the rest of the world forced to face the madman’s legacy, an invincible and inhuman enemy that will attack civilization and threaten all human life.' 

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1 y separately published work icon Life edited Kim O'Toole , Penrith : Kim O'Toole , 2017 17911247 2017 single work novel thriller 'Haunted by the violent death of his wife, award-winning novelist Tom Matterson has spent most of the last three years drinking and contemplating suicide. His life takes on a new meaning, however, when he comes upon a mysterious young woman on his way home from a bar late one night. Angeline has almost no memory, no money, she is wearing only a lab coat and is emaciated and too weak to walk. Against the advice of a friend, he brings her home with him, determined to restore her health and help her regain her life. But before long, mutilated bodies start turning up in alleyways and other public places and he soon discovers that they are all linked to her and to an institute involved in growing synthetic organs for transplantation. Worse, the serial killer, nicknamed "Jill" by the media, appears to be hunting Angeline . . . and now him.'

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1 y separately published work icon If I Should Die Kim O'Toole , Penrith : Kim O'Toole , 2017 17909822 2017 single work novel thriller 'Just six years old . . . and in danger. An unidentified gunshot victim is paralyzed and unable to communicate. When found by police, he has a photograph of a young girl hidden in his shoe. Dr. Jessie Baxter, the trauma physician treating him, believes the child is now desperate and alone and in need of protection. With the help of a Ph.D. student studying brain function, Jessie looks to technology to extract crucial information from the man's badly-damaged brain so she can find the girl. But a group of four men calling themselves the Council are just as determined to stop her. In a matter of days they change her life forever: she becomes a wanted fugitive, a presumed heroin addict and murderer with manufactured evidence against her that looks conclusive. As Jessie desperately searches for answers and a way to clear her name, she realizes that those who have persecuted her are determined to keep their activities secret and to kill anyone who gets in their way. That includes Jessie and the child. And now the Council is hunting both of them . . .'

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1 y separately published work icon Breakthrough Kim O'Toole , Penrith : Kim O'Toole , 2017 17908243 2017 single work novel crime 'Alex Morgan returns from a short overseas sabbatical just in time to witness the burial of his pregnant fiancée, Elizabeth. According to the pathologist she died from an undiagnosed congenital heart condition; but to Alex her autopsy report and a mysterious email from a German testing laboratory suggest otherwise, that she was poisoned with one of the most powerful toxins known. His investigation leads him to the university department where she worked and to her recent medical breakthrough, a discovery she was obliged to keep secret even from him. But what did she discover and did it have anything to do with what happened to her? As Alex struggles to answer these questions, he soon realizes that he cannot trust colleagues and friends he has known for years. In the meantime, one of them has been monitoring his every move and plans to kill him, to make it appear that he committed suicide, overcome by grief at the death of his beloved Elizabeth . . .'

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