Description:A twisty, gripping debut crime thriller featuring a complicated but winning detective in the murder squad of a small town police department. Rose was lit by the sun, her beautiful face giving nothing away. Her elegant hands diligently making notes, her writing perfect compared to my own crude scrawl. Even back then, she was a mystery that I wanted to solve.
The lead homicide investigator in the large rural town of Smithson, Australia, Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is deeply unnerved when an old high school classmate turns up strangled, her body left in a lake. And not just any classmate, but Rosalind Ryan, whose beauty and inscrutability exerted a magnetic pull on Smithson High School, first during Rosalind's student years and then again when she returned to teach drama.
As much as Rosalind's life was a mystery to Gemma when they were students together, her death presents even more of a puzzle. What made Rosalind quit her teaching job in Sydney...