Introduction by Sean Williams

Cover illustration by Cat Sparks

WINNER OF THE DITMAR AWARD

Cat Sparks first rose to prominence as the founder of the acclaimed Agog! Press, publishing ten titles from 2002 to 2008. As a writer, Sparks is a graduate of the inaugural Clarion South workshop, a Writers of the Future winner, a multiple Ditmar and Aurealis Award winner, and the author of close to 60 published stories.

The 13 stories include the award-winning titles “All the Love in the World”, “Seventeen”, “Hollywood Roadkill”, and the acclaimed “Arctica”.

Winner of the Ditmar Award, finalist for the Ned Kelly Award for First Crime Novel.

“I really, really enjoyed the book. It was an absolute page-turner, rising tension, as well as a lovely mystery yarn.” –Karen Joy Fowler

”A mystery within a mystery, this literary detective novel set in Australia begins when unemployed college graduate Mel Kirksley bumps into her ‘almost step-mother’, who knows of a perfect temporary job. Soon, Mel is hired by Roxanna Press, a feminist publishing company, to sleuth out the name of an anonymous author whose 1865 novel was serialized in the Tolletown Chronicle newspaper.” – Publishers Weekly

Australian musician Lisa Sheehan has got life sussed, but then, one-by-one, her fans start to turn up dead, their bodies hideously mutilated, and Lisa is haunted by memories that are not her own. Can these 20th-century murders be linked to events in Stuart England?