Simone Kirsch, private eye with a difference, always wanted to join the police force. She's smart, fit and wants to do good. But she has a problem. She has worked as a stripper for the last three years and the service won't let her in. Instead, she enrols in an enquiry agent's course at a security college, tops the class and it looks like she might have some surveillance work coming up. It's all going to plan. But then her best friend Chloe - a fellow stripper who works at Melbourne's notorious The Red Room - is kidnapped by gangsters after its owner is murdered and Simone has two weeks to find the culprit and save Chloe's life. Along the way she gets tangled up with Melbourne's most corrupt cop, some crazy strippers and a rockabilly band called Las Vegas Grind. She even manages to fall in and out of love - or is that lust - in the course of a fortnight, and sustains some pretty serious hangovers, all while racing the clock to rescue her best friend. Peepshow is sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, a wild ride that takes you inside Melbourne's adult cinemas and lap dancing clubs. Simone is a sexy, sassy Tart-Noir heroine, kind of like Cliff Hardy, but with open leg work.

Simone Kirsch, P.I. has given up stripping and is trying to be straight. But she can never stay straight for long. Simone is hired by prominent lawyer Emery Wade, to find his wayward daughter Tamara. She's been taking drugs and working in the sex industry and Daddy fears a scandal that will affect not just his reputation, but that of her AFL-hotshot brother and his soap-star fiancée. When Simone finds Tamara dead the coroner says suicide. But Lulu, Tammy's best friend from the parlour, is convinced it's murder. Tangling with a drug dealer, a sleazy brothel owner and a bizarre love quadrangle with three coppers, time is running out for Simone to get to the bottom of it all before someone tries to keep her quiet too. A criminally witty romp on the sexy side of the mean streets.

Leigh Redhead goes from strength to strength, with The Australian calling Rubdown 'the best Australian crime novel this year'. Cherry Pie continues the exploits and adventures of the irresistible and wholly irrepressible Simone Kirsch - it's all love, sex, cheap cask wine and crime down the dirty end of St Kilda.

Smart, sexy, and strong-minded Simone Kirsch, ex-stripper and PI, returns in her fourth adventure, and she's up to her neck in lethal fun and games on the writers' festival circuit Bad girl sleuth Simone Kirsch is back in business—and before she has time to crack a bottle of cheap champagne to celebrate the opening of her very own detective agency, she's back in danger. It all starts off quite innocently, when bestselling crime novelist Nick Austin wants to follow her around for a few days as background research for his next novel. But the day after he, his ex-wife, and her new lover all appear on the same panel at a writers festival, his ex-wife is found brutally murdered and Nick disappears, leaving Simone with more trouble than she can handle. While she can take murderous bikers, desperate publishers, poetry slams, and a crystal meth–addicted psycho killer with literary ambitions in stride, Simone is also juggling her very pregnant and possibly hormonally unbalanced best friend, Chloe; her ongoing attraction to ex-cop Alex; and her boyfriend, Sean, who wants her to give up her agency and move to Vietnam. All in all, life is complicated—not to mention the fact that she's facing the toughest, most dangerous case of her career.