Charles Ardai Books in Order

An elderly man's binoculars draw him into a murder next door, and his testimony could clear a young woman. Deputy Hennessy questions the witness's account in this comic mystery told through double-dactyl verse.

An eighteen-year-old showgirl writes a fictional nightclub heist that a pulp publisher presents as fact. When gangsters recognise an actual robbery, writer and publisher find themselves pursued by criminals and police through a dangerous publishing venture.

A hidden chamber inside Egypt's Great Sphinx sends Gabriel Hunt searching for answers across a Greek island and Sri Lanka. His expedition encounters danger tied to a discovery whose implications reach far beyond the ancient site.

Private investigator Holland March and enforcer Jackson Healy reluctantly join forces to find a missing girl and investigate a porn star's death. Their incompatible methods collide with a conspiracy involving powerful interests in this film novelisation.

Weapons smuggler Joanna Tan can place a gun almost anywhere, but a prison delivery triggers mass deaths and a violent escape. The government forces her to hunt the criminal she released, turning her specialist skill into a dangerous obligation.

Someone uses Joanna Tan’s signature weapons-smuggling methods to commit crimes and frame her for murder. With authorities treating her as their leading suspect, she must find the woman behind the scheme before her own reputation seals her fate.

Twenty crime stories follow people facing violence, loss, and desperate choices across widely different places and eras. A wartime reckoning, a gangland enforcer’s search for love, and a salesman’s difficult night reveal the personal costs beneath criminal plots.

Disguise specialist Dahlia Racers helps Joanna Tan vanish from an intelligence agency’s sights by drawing pursuit onto herself. A ruthless killer follows their trail across borders, threatening to make this paid deception the assignment Dahlia cannot escape.

After months hiding from government agents, Joanna Tan launches a plan to reverse the hunt. Her journey through Borneo, Japan, and the Gobi Desert draws four armed groups toward one secret location, where their competing agendas threaten an explosive confrontation.