The Silence: Longlisted for the New Blood Dagger Award 2021

A missing woman30 years ago, in the suffocating heat of a Sydney summer, the Greens next-door neighbour Mandy disappeared without a trace.A cold case reopenedIn 1997, in a basement flat in Hackney, Isla Green is awakened by a call in the middle of the night: her father is under suspicion of Mandys murder.A devastating secretHow well does Isla know her father? Is he capable of doing something terrible? And is there another secret in their community - a conspiracy of silence which stretches deep into Australias past?