Promise

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For every promise, there is a price to pay.

Top Homicide cop Darian Richards has been seeking out monsters for too long. He has promised one too many victim s families he will find the answers they need and it s taken its toll. After surviving a gunshot wound to the head he calls it quits and heads to the Sunshine Coast in an attempt to leave the demons behind - but he should have realised there are demons everywhere. No place is safe, no matter how warm the weather.

A serial killer is on the prowl in his new patch and Darian tries to convince himself his experience won t make a difference hunting him down. In fact, all Darian wants is to sit at the end of his jetty on the Noosa River and to ignore the fact girls from the area have disappeared over the past fourteen months. That all were blonde and pretty. That the youngest was 13 and the oldest, 16. He knows they are all dead but the local cops are still saying 'missing' or 'vanished . That s what you have to say if you don t have a body.

Jenny Brown was the first. She went sometime after four in the afternoon, Saturday 15 October the previous year. Except for her parents and her friends and everybody who knew her, people considered her just another runaway, especially the cops who allowed a good two or three minutes to elapse before arriving at that conclusion. By the time they d reached the gate to the front yard of her house, before they d even walked across the road and climbed into their cruiser, they thought they knew the truth. But then others disappeared. They couldn t all be runaways.

Finally Darian decides there s no choice: he s going to find the killer and deal with him...but he ll do it his way.

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