Robert Edsall has been a newspaper columnist, government censor, freelance writer, blogger and frequent wage slave so he can pay the bills. This is his first novel. He lives in Sydney with a person named Robinson and a cat named Nina.
Patrick is about to spend his first Christmas alone after separating from his wife, Claire. Their adult son, Ben, took off in another direction around the same time. A family in bits all over Sydney. They are plunged back into crisis when Ben reappears with a new girlfriend, Annie. 'But she's dead,' Ben says. 'That's what I wanted to ask you about.' The police follow one angle on Annie's death...