The Girl with the Gold Bikini

<p><em>Whenever I see a girl with a gold bikini I think of Princess Leia. Here on the Gold Coast gold bikinis are common so I think of Princess Leia a lot.</em><br /><br />Eighteen-year-old Olivia Grace has deferred her law degree and ducked out of her friends' gap-year tour of Asia. Instead she's fulfilling her childhood dream of becoming a private investigator following in the footsteps of Nancy Drew and Veronica Mars - who taught her everything she knows including a solid line in quick-quipping repartee the importance of a handbag full of disguises and a way of mixing business with inconvenient chemistry.<br /><br />Playing Watson to the Sherlock of her childhood friend detective agency owner Rosco (once the Han Solo to her Princess Leia) Olivia pursues a routine cheating husband case from the glitzy Gold Coast to Insta-perfect Byron Bay where she faces yoga wars dirty whale activism and a guru who's kind of a creep.<br /><br />Olivia Grace is a teenage screwball heroine for the #metoo era and <em>The Girl with the Gold Bikini</em> is a body-positive detective romp rich with pop-culture pleasures.</p>