WHO KILLED THE QS GUY?

Talanoa Park is thirty-four days from opening, $173 million over budget, and its Quantity Surveyor has just been found strangled with his own polyester company tie.

Former military policeman Jack Mercer is asked to find out who did it, quickly and quietly. To do that, he has to learn how a $575 million theme park actually gets built: department by department, drawing by drawing, change order by change order.

If you've ever sat through a value-engineering meeting, built from a drawing marked FOR INFORMATION ONLY, or told a quantity surveyor it was only another two million… you'll recognise everyone in this book. Some of them are probably you.

What you get:

• A 20-chapter comic murder mystery, a two-hour read

• Jack's Case Notes after every chapter: every stage of theme-park development, and who is responsible for what

• Gazza's Dictionary: the industry's language, and what it really costs

• EPUB (phones, tablets, e-readers) and PDF, delivered instantly

Launch price $9.90 until 30 November. Regular price $14.90.