The Rosemary

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

The Rosemary centres on the disappearance of Jessica, a student at a boarding school in northern New South Wales. Her group of seven close friends is left to mourn her over more than thirty years . . . until one of them, crime-writer Neroli Woodhouse, stumbles on a link to a fatal accident years before in the South Island of New Zealand.

 

Meanwhile, in Far North Queensland, the skeleton of a young woman is discovered on a remote beach. Detective Cass Diamond is charged with establishing her identity. In NSW, Neroli and police work in tandem on the riddle of Jess’s disappearance, while Cass’s search leads her from Queensland back to the rural NSW where she grew up, and a meeting with Neroli. Can both mysteries be solved?