Helen, the novel is called 'Cold, Bright Lights.' It's not the best I ever read. There was some good detecting of cold cases, but in the middle came a custody case which was so blatantly unfair that I said to myself, "Wait a minute. The author put this in here simply to take up space and to twist my heart."

The author's bio said he has written 50 books, and I suspect his heart's not in it anymore.

Thanks for the link, Walkie.

Jennnie, that's interesting about stoush dating to 1893. If forced, I would have guessed that the word was Polish or Czech and came to Australia with refugees after WWII. Not so.