Stiff:Single father and true believer Murray Whelan thinks the life of a political minder is complicated enough with a femocrat ex, and bad blood at Trades Hall. But throw in a snap-frozen Turk, drugs under the mattress, fascist funeral rites, the tattooed vote, a killer car, blood-sucking parasites, and Murray soon finds thngs spinning fatally out of control. That's when the red-hot Ayisha knocks on his door.The Brush Off:On a sultry summer night Murray Whelan is in the Botanic Gardens tasting Salina Fleet's apricot lips. Meanwhile a dead artist is being fished from the ornamental moat outside the art gallery. Political minder and brushed-off lover Murray Whelan goes looking for the big picture in 'The Brush-Off' and learns that when you dabble with death there is nothing abstract about a loaded gun.