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BLOOD SUNSET
“…There are cops I know who call it the Blood Sunset: when the sun lowers itself into the bay and leaves the sky over St Kilda a dark crimson . It’s beautiful and threatening at the same time, but you probably don’t see it that way. You only see the pretty colours and the calm water, the restaurants and the palm trees. You don’t see the stabbings and the fights, the brawls and the rapes. The things that happen after dark. The things only we see…”
Det Sgt Rubens McCauley, St Kilda CIU
When a young runaway is found dead in a St Kilda loading bay one morning with a syringe hanging from his arm, no one is shocked. A known junkie, the kid's criminal record is as long as the Scenic Railway. Even local detective Rubens McCauley is quick to conclude that Dallas Boyd died of an accidental overdose.
But anomalies in Boyd's death - and the haunting memory of a child hood friend - continue to nag at McCauley. Unable to shake his unease, he revives the case, only to find himself up against a secret network of paedophiles, drug dealers and underage prostitutes.
Forced to look evil in the eye, McCauley must first conquer his own demons as he battles to find justice for a boy he never knew in life but has come to know intimately in death.
ISBN: 978-1-74175-420-9 RRP: $29.99AUD