'Kaz Cooke takes no prisoners. This is satire commando-style' Simon Hughes, Sydney Morning Herald 'Mills and Boon on Acid.' Who Weekly For magician's assistant Selina Plankton, this week is not a week like any other. She's evicted from her flat. She's sawn in half for the very last time. She meets a Serbo-Scottish psychiatrist who seems to have cornered the market in Hawaiian shirts. And then there's a desperate call for help from Darwin, from a friend threatened with death, or worse - the zoning minister. The plot doesn't thicken at this point, it positively curdles. Selina is embroiled in mystery, mayhem, attempted murder and an extremely tricky point of etiquette: should a modern girl accept $10,000 on first date? Tropical and topical, it's about socks, lies and audiotape, romance, politics and resort wear. The Crocodile Club...a romance mystery political farce with a double twist and pike. 'Since the success of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert it has gradually become public knowledge that there is a species of humans with an unusually twisted sense of humour on the loose in Australia. Among them is the sharp-tongued c

Kaz Cooke is a cartoonist and writer. Her other books include Real Gorgeous, the Modern Girl series and Keep Yourself Nice. She lives in Melbourne where she maintains an unseemly interest in Wild West imagery and nurses a pathological fear of mining company executives and of people with crystals in their pockets. But that's Sagittarians for you. The Crocodile Club is her first novel.