Brilliant ex-pat DI Mackenzie Clarke has fled London amid controversy to her hometown of Dolphin Cove in Oz, and finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation.

DI Mackenzie Clarke has two mysteries on her hands – how to solve the murder of a famous influencer in the middle of a fun run and how to stop local bathers taking shortcuts through her property.

Three hairdressers return from lunch to find boss Bianca Bailey has been killed. The method is strangulation, but the murder weapon remains a mystery, one that Mackenzie is determined to untangle.

Terrible things are happening in Dolphin Cove – radical eco-activist Byron Jones is murdered, and DI Mackenzie Clarke is prevailed upon to patrol the local football match.

A quiet afternoon game of lawn bowls turns to chaos when a man is killed on the green in broad daylight by an antique ornamental bushranger’s gun that hasn’t been fired in over a century.

DI Mackenzie Clarke is forced to leave London under a cloud of suspicion and return to the last place she never wanted to be, her hometown of Dolphin Cove, Australia, where her tenacity and work ethic help her solve murder mysteries.