![]() ![]() The young man's mother wanted the case re-opened and was causing quite a stir.Īs Kate and her team searched for evidence on the hold-up, their frustrations mounted. Added to that, her boss handed her a file to follow up regarding a young man who'd died in the floods a few months prior. But a violent armed hold-up at the local McDonald's restaurant where a sixteen year old girl was harmed, quite seriously, put paid to Kate's quiet week. ![]() Living and working on the NSW side of the Queensland border, Kate was looking forward to a quiet week while she handed over her files to her fill-in, Josh, who'd arrived from Sydney. Her four year old, Archie, and husband Geoff, kept the home fires burning while she was working. (I will try harder to remember the names, or maybe an editor with a memory like mine has picked up on that.)ĭetective Sergeant Kate Miles was 36 weeks pregnant and only had a week before going on maternity leave. It’s a great debut and I look forward to the next one featuring Kate. I don’t know if other readers found that an issue or not, but when the names Joel and Josh appeared so early in the piece, and then Josh and Josephine were only sentences apart right near the start, (not that I was going to confuse them with each other), I actually considered quitting and giving up on it, expecting a poorly edited first manuscript.īut I persisted, and once I managed to get my head around the cast of characters, I thoroughly enjoyed the story (which is well-edited, except for my niggle). Lots of Ms, besides McDonald’s – Marshall, Manning, Murchison, Masters, Marin. Surnames of Ellis, Ellwood, Allen, then Unwin and Goodwin. So many of the names are similar, that I had to keep going back to remember which name belonged to whom. She shares her Sri Lankan heritage with the author, which gives another interesting aspect to the story. She just gets on with the job, worrying about husband Geoff and little son Archie and hoping to keep herself in one piece, literally, until the baby is due.Īs I said, I liked Kate. Regional areas are notorious for cross-pollination of populations, as I think of it. It’s no surprise that she might have known Roman Allen in the past. She had only been a raw young thing at the time, too unimportant to register.” Was she junior or senior to the detective he had just met? In the end, he simply accepted her hand and shook it briefly. She could almost hear the cogs whirring in his brain, trying to work out where she fit into the mix. She felt Allen’s eyes flicker across her heavily pregnant form. Growing up she had lost count of the minuscule double takes and swift second glances that had been thrown their way when she had been out and about with her father. ![]() In the genetic stakes, it was her mother, a Sri Lankan migrant from the UK who had placed her stamp on Kate’s appearance, while her younger brother, Luke had taken after their Australian father, inheriting his deep grey eyes and light skin, freckles and all. “Roman Allen hesitated momentarily, no doubt silently correlating her ‘Australian’-sounding name to her discernibly South-Asian heritage. Not just any girl, but the daughter of Councillor Roman Allen, and he’s after revenge. ![]() They were after money, but one of the guys attacked and kicked a girl so severely she was hospitalised. Kate’s father was a well-known ex-chief inspector, which means there are both expectations of her and a bit of backlash from those who think she might be riding on his coattails.Īlongside this nuisance assignment, she and her partner, Josh, are investigating the holdup at the local McDonald’s by three youths wearing rubber masks of action heroes. As each fact or account was introduced, she found other questions to ask. I liked Kate and I enjoyed the story, which didn’t go as I might have thought. It’s hot, Kate is exhausted, but the boss has assigned her the troublesome mother and asked her to check the police notes as a formality. Joel’s death had been attributed to the flood, but his mother is adamant that Joel’s wife, who escaped, had murdered him. Only weeks off her baby’s due date, Detective Sergeant Kate Miles is tramping around the scene of a suspected murder that may have taken place during the horrific floods in northern NSW, Australia. Flood debris, lying where the waters had dropped them, inert and innocent.” She noticed several thick tree branches, rocks of all sizes, and even the odd shopping trolley. “They walked on, Kate doing her best to keep pace, her hand moving to support the bulk of her belly and stepping with care along the muddy creek bed. ![]()
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