When Detective Jake Hunter takes a short term post at Dunton in Tasmania, in order to have a break from working in the Melbourne, he anticipates a quieter life. However events occurring during the second week of his posting suggest that this may not be the case.
A young boy disappears from a campsite during the night and when Jake and a search party look for the boy a body is discovered in a nearby vineyard. Solving the murder of Ava O'Brien reveals a world of prejudice, fear, lies, mistrust, mutilation, murder and cover up, over many years, involving the local community. The former girls home that operated in the grounds of the vineyard appears to be the focal point of many unexplained events.
Another murder and attempted murder further complicated the investigations and it soon became obvious to Jake that finding someone to trust in this town was next to impossible. Fortunately the forensic pathologist, Dr Meena Gill, supported his investigations and her discoveries enabled him to follow new leads.
Much of the material revealed in this book is confronting and the reader is kept guessing as the pieces of the puzzle are gradually uncovered to eventually reveal the perpetrators of years of horrendous crime in this small town. A compelling read.
About the author - L J M Owen
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