In a hotel room on a sleepy Pacific island, Judy Novak waits. And worries. It isn’t the first time 29-year-old problem child Paulina has kept her mother waiting. But Judy can’t ignore the island’s jagged cliffs and towering pines — or the dread that Paulina has finally acted on her threats to take her own life.
The Death Mask Murders may appeal to readers of Caleb Carr’s The Alienist in some respects, as the plot involves insights into the beginnings of psychiatry.
There’s nowhere to run when you’re thirty-five thousand feet in the air. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane.
Enjoy the flight.
Police are baffled by several deaths, each unique and bizarre in their own way – and shockingly brutal. Scotland Yard sends in its crack DCI, the enigmatic Jack Hawksworth, who wastes no time in setting up Operation Mirror. His chief wants him to dismiss any plausibility of a serial killer before the media gets on the trail.
From the stark backroads of the Australian outback to a terrifying sea voyage, Mim is forced to shuck off who she was – mother, daughter, wife, sister – and become the woman she needs to be to save her family and herself.
Conscientious reconstructive surgeon Dr Richard Bombberg has come to a spectacular end. In the middle of a cocktail party, Indigo set him and a mysterious redhead on fire.
Carla is reeling from the brutal murder of her nephew. She trusts no one: good people are capable of terrible deeds. But how far will she go to find peace?
Innocent or guilty, everyone is damaged. Some are damaged enough to kill.
But in the night, I couldn’t bear it.
My chest beat like wings.
As Emily gets to know the family, their masks begin to slip, and what at first appears to be a dream come true turns out to be a prison …
This extraordinary series, now available on ABC iView, is a must-see for crime writers. It is so beautifully filmed and edited that it is hard to believe it is reality TV, not staged.