It’s tough being a Detective Senior Sergeant in the Sex Crimes unit. DSS Stevie Hooper is fighting to balance the seamier side of being a cop with her role as a mother—and her latest case is not going to make it any easier. It starts with a deserted house, an abandoned baby, and an elderly neighbor who has the answers but cannot speak. Then the body of a woman turns up in the river with its limbs bound and a shotgun wound to the head. Soon DSS Hooper is on the trail of a human trafficking ring and discovers a ruthless group with international connections that has at its rotten heart a disregard for all human life.
[Felicity Young is] favorably compared to the big guns Patricia Cornwell and Kathryn Fox . . . With a smart female lead and well-researched, pacy plots, it's one to get stuck into. —Scoop magazine
Felicity Young is an intriguing new addition to the upper echelons of Australian thriller writing. —Sun Herald
Hopefully Young will find a ready audience. She deserves it. —Good Reading
Manages to stand on its own. . . . recommended to please any fan of Patricia Cornwall and Kathryn Fox’s work and is perfect for anyone that needs a lazy day of reading. —Australian Bookseller+Publisher
Felicity Youngis the author ofA Certain Malice,An Easeful Death, andHarum Scarum.
Strong, interesting female villains, and victims who are not meek lambs but multifaceted.
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