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Bestselling author Tara Moss returns to crime fiction with a stunning new series, and a stunning new heroine. Meet PI Billie Walker.<\/p>\n
Booktopia Best Books of 2019 \u2013 Crime Fiction and Thriller<\/strong><\/p>\n Long-listed for the 2020 Davitt Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n Short-listed for the 2020 Danger Prize<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"Bestselling author Tara Moss returns to crime fiction with a stunning new series, and a stunning new heroine.\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\nSynopsis<\/h3>\r\n'A terrific read' Lynda La Plante<\/strong>\r\n\r\n'A\u00a0cracking thriller, with a marvellous, strong, flamboyant heroine.\u00a0Loved it.' Joanne Harris, award-winning author of\u00a0Chocolat<\/strong>\r\n\r\nBooktopia Best Books of 2019 \u2013 Crime Fiction and Thriller<\/strong>\r\n\r\nReadings Best Crime Reads\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\nShe's a woman in a man's world ...\r\n\r\nSydney, 1946. Billie Walker is living life on her own terms. World War II has left her bereaved, her photojournalist husband missing and presumed dead. Determined not to rely on any man for her future, she re-opens her late father's detective agency.\r\n\r\nBillie's bread and butter is tailing cheating spouses - it's easy, pays the bills and she has a knack for it. But her latest case, the disappearance of a young man, is not proving straightforward ...\r\n\r\nSoon Billie is up to her stylish collar in bad men, and not just the unfaithful kind - these are the murdering kind. Smugglers. Players. Gangsters. Billie and her loyal assistant must pit their wits against Sydney's ruthless underworld and find the young man before it's too late.\r\n\r\n'Immersive, well-paced, entertaining, thoughtful -\u00a0so enjoyable!' Angela Meyer, award-winning author of\u00a0A Superior Spectre<\/strong>\r\n\r\nPraise for Tara Moss:<\/strong>\r\n\r\n'Enough\u00a0page-turning suspense\u00a0to keep you up reading far later than you intended!' Peter James<\/strong>\r\n\r\n'Truly thrilling'\u00a0Woman's Day<\/strong>\r\n\r\n'Moss's\u00a0ultra-cool prose and whip-smart plotting\u00a0pull you along at cracking pace until suddenly you look up and realise with a gulp how deep you've gone and how very dark it is down there.' Emily Maguire, author of\u00a0An Isolated Incident<\/strong>","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_cat":[158],"product_tag":[161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taramoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/7297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taramoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taramoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taramoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taramoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taramoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taramoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=7297"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taramoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=7297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}