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.

When crabby Vince Ogden is found dead in his locked bedsit, it is presumed he ended his own life. But Mack can sense murder and is more than happy to throw herself into the case.