Missing Pieces - Softcover

Caroline De Costa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0648215997 ISBN 13: 9780648215998

Publisher: Wild Dingo Press, 2018

Synopsis

In 1992, toddler Yasmin Munoz goes missing near Cairns. No trace of her has ever been found. Yet in 2012 Andrew Todd, a wealthy businessman and former mayor of Cairns, dies, and leaves in his will directions for a search for the missing child, who if she is still alive must now be a young woman. Cairns detective Cass Diamond is asked to help with the search. She discovers that in 1990, popular university student Chloe Campion also went missing, from a party in Brisbane celebrating her engagement to the son of Andrew Todd. Police inquiries at the time of the child's disappearance found no link with the Campion case. But Cass is curious. The story twists and turns, leaving the reader guessing about the fates of Yasmin and Chloe.

About this title

About the Author:

Caroline de Costa was born and brought up in Sydney. After travelling and working in Europe, the Middle East and South America, including a stint in the Swedish Merchant Navy, she studied medicine in Dublin. She has practised as a doctor in the area of women's health since 1973 and is now Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at James Cook University College of Medicine in Cairns, where she lives. She has always had a strong interest in the improvement and provision of services for women's reproductive health. Since 1992 she has published many books to provide information for women about their health and health needs, as well as medical text books. De Costa has also always been an avid reader of crime fiction and in 2015 published her first crime fiction novel. Missing Pieces is the second novel in the series featuring Cairns Aboriginal detective Cass Diamond, and is a sequel to Double Madness, which was shortlisted in the Davitt Awards in 2016. De Costa brings her experience of the people and institutions of Far North Queensland, as well as her deep knowledge of medicine, and of the lush but sometimes unforgiving reef and rainforest country of the region.

Review:

"One of the pleasures of this novel is that de Costa is unafraid to spend time with the characters and the landscape, and Double Madness benefits from this soaking in. While never brutal or bloodthirsty, it nonetheless feels heavy with danger. ****"
- Fiona Hardy, bookseller and committee member, the Australian Crime Writers Association

"Authentic and snappy. [Double Madness is] an assured debut into crime fiction by Caroline de Costa."
- Marianne Delacourt, author

"Caroline de Costa's Cairns is a community rife with secrets, and where for every secret there exists someone ready to take advantage. Fast-paced, unsentimental and forensic, Double Madness is sure to entertain."
- David Whish-Wilson, author

About this edition

• Publisher: Wild Dingo Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0648215997
• ISBN 13: 9780648215998
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304