Caroline De Costa

Missing Pieces Caroline De Costa

In 1992, toddler Yasmin Munoz
went missing from a rainforest picnic spot near Cairns. No trace of her has
ever been found. Yet in 2012 Andrew Todd, a wealthy businessman and former
mayor of Cairns, dies, and leaves in his will directions for a search for the
missing child, who if she is still alive must now be a young woman. Cairns
detective Cass Diamond is soon asked to help with the search. But Cass
sometimes exceeds professional boundaries... She discovers that in 1990, popular
university student Chloe Campion had also gone missing, from a party in
Brisbane celebrating her engagement to the son of Andrew Todd. Police inquiries
at the time of the child's disappearance found no link with the Campion case.
But Cass is curious...



On her own, Cass delves deeper,
and is led to a farm on the Atherton Tableland outside Cairns, where her
curiosity gets her kidnapped with two other women, and into a hostage drama
with an unpredictable assailant...



Weaving together a story of race,
ethnicity, environmental politics and intrigue, Caroline de Costa again sets
her heroine in the lush rainforest, the sparkling seas and the solitary inland
country of North Queensland that she knows so well. The story twists and turns,
leaving the reader guessing, then guessing again, about the fates of Yasmin and
Chloe...