Detective Inspector "Sarge" Downs of the Queensland police was returning to Cairns when he was witness to the horrific slaying of a young motorbike rider. Cradling the dying young woman in his arms he made a silent vow to find the assassins. In investigating the death with the aid of colleagues, Acting Detective Sergeant Nat Johns and Constable Liz Rhodes, he finds an extraordinary web of criminal activity hiding just below the surface. Real estate fraud, extortion, prostitution, money laundering, drug trafficking and people smuggling are all somehow linked to the death of this bright young university student. Border Force and the Australian Federal Police become involved and assist Sarge and his team in solving the murder.

I am a former primary teacher and principal, landscape designer and gardener and now a full time author living in Gippsland in the state of Victoria in Australia. Although I write mainly fictional novels, I regularly contribute to political blogs and have letters regularly published in local and Victorian newspapers. I write parodies of songs and am in the process of writing music for the large number of poems that I have written.