
Crime Fiction

Carmel Shute, national co-convenor of Sisters in-Crime, will launch the novel in St Kilda on November 13th.

In 2015 Caroline de Costa published her first crime novel, Double Madness, with Margaret River Press.

In 1992, toddler Yasmin Munoz goes missing from a rainforest picnic spot near Cairns. No trace of her has ever been found.

A young Asian woman lies in a pool of blood in a Cairns motel. Transferred to hospital, she dies before she can tell her story. Detective Cass Diamond and her team are soon on the case.

A woman lies dead after tumbling down the stairs of a Cairns townhouse. Did she fall or was she pushed? A young man is stabbed to death in his brother’s kitchen; why? The remains of a baby are unearthed from behind an abandoned house. Who was this child?

It seems a perfect beach in tropical north Queensland, yet a sign marks the site where fifteen Aboriginal people were massacred more than a century before.