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A thriller from award-winning author Blanche dAlpuget involving where nothing is as it appears.

A gripping novel that unravels the shocking death of ‘Australias darling’, the nations most beloved and recognisable morning television presenter, found dead under mysterious and disturbing circumstances in her Southern Highlands home. As detectives scramble to keep the gruesome details under wraps, they are drawn into a hidden world of deception, passions, and long-buried secrets, and a network of individuals with a fetish for plush pink bunnies. What emerges is a tale of intrigue and tragedy intertwined, ultimately, with a quest for belonging, atonement and redemption—a story where nothing is as it appears, and the truth is more chilling than anyone could have imagined.

Blanche d’Alpuget is the acclaimed author of biographies, novels and essays. Her work, Robert J. Hawke: A Biography is considered one of the finest examples of political biography in Australia. Prior to that she wrote Mediator, A Biography of Sir Richard Kirby, for many years used as a text for teaching industrial relations. Her novels include Monkeys in the Dark, set in Indonesia and also a university text, Turtle Beach, set in Malaysia and made into a feature movie, Winter in Jerusalem, winner of the Australasian division of the Commonwealth Literature Award, and White Eye, published in 1993, a novel she personally disliked, that foretold a global pandemic from a laboratory created bug. Her books have won a host of literary prizes. She also wrote the controversial essays On Lust and On Longing, and a series on King Henry II of England and his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine. They are: The Young Lion, The Lion Rampant, the Lions’ Torment, The Lioness Wakes and The Cubs Roar.