Deep Down

<p>Homicide detective sergeant Rory James has young First Nations archaeologist Tahlia Lock in tow when a Grampians gemstone fossicker strikes human bones. The find is so deep there is no way the remains could be non-archaeological ... except they are. The body turns out to be a woman from Sydney.</p><p>Tahlia insists she stay on the case nonetheless. From their testy exchanges Rory learns Tahlia's real reason for hanging around is to have him re-investigate her brother's unsolved disappearance.</p><p>For Rory's colleagues it is an open and shut case of the Sydney woman being murdered by her mining geologist husband. Rory thinks otherwise when he finds a link to the case of Tahlia's missing brother ... and is it possible that a frontier wars massacre is somehow connected?</p><p>As Rory digs deeper the atrocity becomes more than ancient history and imperils Tahlia.</p><p></p><p>BONUS SHORT STORY. This edition includes the Detective Sergeant Rory James mini-mystery set in Bendigo - Dying for a Coffee.</p>