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