Welcome to Whale Bay

The clues are in the cards ...

When jaded Melbourne divorce lawyer Clementine Carter returns to her Queensland coastal hometown of Whale Bay after a twenty-five-year absence, she figures she'll fly in, arrange the sale of the beach shack she's been left in her Aunt Rose's will, and fly back out.

Once back in Whale Bay, Clem soon discovers that Rose has been locking horns with some of the most influential people in town, and her death might not be as straightforward as she's been led to believe. It seems someone wants to get their hands on both the beachside property and New Moon, Rose's New Age shop – and will stop at nothing until they get it.
To complicate matters further, when Clem meets Finn Marella, a local barista and her aunt's partner in local activism, sparks fly. 

Convinced Rose's death was no accident, Clem sets out, with the help of Finn and some old school friends, to investigate.

With millions of development dollars at stake, can Clem read the clues Rose has left behind and unravel the mystery before it's too late for her too?

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It's the perfect coastal town to start over. And the perfect place to commit murder

Former divorce lawyer Clementine Carter’s life in Whale Bay is close to perfect. She’d never admit it, of course, because that would invite disaster and she’s got big plans for her new-age store as well as her romance with local barista Finn Marello.

Disaster still finds her anyway, in the form of Finn’s not-quite-ex-wife. She’s in town to conduct an environmental assessment, only something smells off about the whole process to Clem and her friends.

Then Clem discovers his wife’s dead body floating in the mangroves and Finn becomes the main suspect. Needing answers, she sets out to investigate and uncover more about the proposed development of the protected mangroves area.

But Clem has secrets of her own, and when the reason she left Whale Bay twenty-five years ago arrives in town in the middle of a murder investigation, Clem might need an alibi or two of her own.

Can Clem solve the mystery before the killer—or her past—catches up with her?

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