In Leura, a keen gardener named Serena Ives disappears. Her wealthy husband is an obvious suspect, and Paul Ruel leads the investigation.
Bella Greaves, who knew Serena years ago when she was a drug addict, finds herself drawn in. Serena has discovered something about her own past, connected to the murders of gay men in Sydney’s eastern suburbs in the 1980s. It seems that unwittingly she was responsible for something terrible back then. As Bella searches for her old friend, she wonders how anyone would react to learning such a thing, decades later.
Then a death occurs and events take an unusual turn.
Some of the story, which includes a crisis in the affair between Paul and Bella’s daughter Siobhan, occurs in the magnificent Everglades Gardens at Leura.
"Nasturtium noir!" — Kate McClymont, investigative journalist
“A four-star crime fiction novel. Plot has some original ideas.” — Goodreads
