Shadow City

Publisher details

Author
Natalie Conyer
Publisher
Echo Publishing
Genres
Crime Fiction, Fiction
Released
03 September, 2024
ISBN
9781760688851

Shadow City

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Synopsis

Every city casts a shadow, where evil flourishes.

Sydney, Australia: The body of a young woman is found in Chinatown. She's been beaten, tortured - and tattooed with the image of a sun. Called to the scene, Sergeant Jackie Rose asks herself whether this was a drug murder, or something else. But before her investigation can get under way, she is ordered to hand the case over to the Australian Federal Police.

Cape Town, South Africa: A local girl recruited to study in Australia has fallen off the radar. Veteran detective Schalk Lourens - recently suspended from duty - has already made plans to visit his daughter in Sydney, with emigration in mind. He decides to search for the missing girl while he is there.

Jackie and Schalk join forces, exposing a trail of corruption and crime stretching from the foreshore of the city's iconic harbour, back to South Africa and across the world.

Together the pair must navigate a minefield of deceit and manipulation set by an enemy more powerful and depraved than they can imagine. And failure isn'tan option, because not only their own futures, but those of hundreds of vulnerable young people, hang in the balance.

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Tense, Gritty and Insightful: Read an Extract from Shadow City by Natalie Conyer

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10 September 2024

Tense, Gritty and Insightful: Read an Extract from Shadow City by Natalie Conyer

    Natalie Conyer
    About the author

    Natalie Conyer

    Natalie Conyer is the author of Present Tense, which won the Ned Kelly Award for best debut crime novel of 2020, was shortlisted for the Davitt Awards and was nominated as one of 2020's best reads by The Australian.Her short stories have won several awards and been featured in anthologies such as The Only One in the World and Dark Deeds Down Under Volume 2. They are also shortly to be published as a collection.Natalie is based in Sydney.

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