Author(s): Colin King; Jacqui Lynch (Designed by)

Crime Fiction

Journalist Ella Richie has more than grief to deal with when she and partner, Detective Sergeant André Marshall, return to the family's Mallee farm for the unexpected funeral of her widowed mother. The two adventure racers seek respite on a Big Desert training run where Ella recoils from striding onto a dead woman's body.Front-page scoops are not meant to happen like this. Not right now. And does André have a baffling homicide on his hands? It's looking like the woman was thrown from an aeroplane with Buckley's chance of it being witnessed by anyone.Ella's woes escalate when her long-absconded sister Lila returns to the family home after an absence of twenty years ... mere days after their mother's funeral. Although Ella spurns her unceremoniously, Lila won't be denied.It takes the Mallee and its unique appeal to finally unravel the disturbing mysteries of the present ... and the past.