Hidden Lives

Caroline de Costa

May 2021 · Boolarong Press

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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. Then on a sunny morning in 2002 the body of a young Aboriginal woman washes up on the sand. Accident … or murder?

Close by lives Cairns forensic pathologist Leah Rookwood, on the island handed down through four generations of Rookwoods. As Leah’s colleague Detective Leslie Fernando investigates the modern- day death, Leah discovers some dubious history in her own family. Are the distant events and the current tragedy linked?

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Caroline de Costa is an obstetrician and gynaecologist and professor at James Cook University in Cairns. She is the author of three novels in the Detective Cass Diamond series, Missing Pieces and Blood Sisters teaming with Double Madness, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Sisters-in-Crime Davitt Awards. She has also published a prequel to the series, Hidden Lives, with Boolarong Press. Caroline has been acclaimed for short crime-fiction, winning the Scarlet Stiletto Kerry Greenwood Award in 2019 for Screwed, and was highly commended for Combustible and Love in the time of coronavirus in the 2020 Scarlet Stiletto Awards.

Caroline de Costa is an obstetrician and gynaecologist and professor at James Cook University in Cairns. She is the author of three novels in the Detective Cass Diamond series, Missing Pieces and Blood Sisters teaming with Double Madness, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Sisters-in-Crime Davit...

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