When Laurence Harford,
a prominent businessman and philanthropist is found murdered in the historic
Rocks area of Sydney, Detective Chief Inspector Fitzjohn is asked to solve the
crime quickly and discreetly. After barely
starting his investigation, uncovering a discarded mistress and disgruntled
employees, a second killing occurs.
Meanwhile, Laurence’s
nephew, Nicholas Harford, has his certainties in life shaken when he becomes a
suspect in his uncle’s death, and receives a mysterious gold locket that starts
a chain of events unravelling his family’s dark truths.
Sydney’s Observatory on a balmy summer
evening is the perfect venue for a cocktail party and, it would seem, a murder,
for Peter Van Goren’s body is discovered bludgeoned to death in the
grounds. The first question Detective
Chief Inspector Fitzjohn must answer is why Van Goren was present given his
name does not appear on the guest list.
The second is, what was the subject of Van Goren’s vehement argument
with Richard Carmichael, one of the function’s hosts.
Meanwhile, Richard’s son, Ben Carmichael, a
photojournalist, returns to Sydney from an overseas assignment to find his
fiancée, Emma Phillips, has gone missing.
Although unavoidably dragged into the police investigation, Ben goes in
search of her. In so doing, he is drawn
to Lane’s End, the abandoned family estate where the very atmosphere awakens
disturbing memories.
Through a maze of twisted stories, Fitzjohn
follows a winding path to solve his case, but he is not prepared for the
spiralling perplexity his quest creates.
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