Washed up in a storm, a part of a human body leads Detective Inspector "Sarge" Downs and Detective Senior Sergeant Nat Johns of the Criminal Investigation Branch based in Cairns, Queensland down to Melbourne to investigate why a man had fled so far north only to be murdered and his body disposed of at sea. They discover a dysfunctional family that has a criminal background all too willing to cover-up what may have happened to their son and brother. With the aid of Victorian police, they attempt to find the murderer and uncover the conspiracy that surrounds it.

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.