Missing Pieces: The second novel in the Cass Diamond series

Caroline de Costa

Boolarong Press

About this ebook

In 1992, toddler Yasmin Munoz goes missing from a rainforest picnic spot near Cairns. No trace of her has ever been found. Yet in 2012 Andrew Todd, a wealthy businessman and former mayor of Cairns, dies, and leaves in his will directions for a search for the missing child, who if she is still alive must now be a young woman. Cairns detective Cass Diamond is asked to help with the search. But Cass sometimes exceeds professional boundaries. . . She discovers that in 1990, popular university student Chloe Campion also went missing, from a party in Brisbane celebrating her engagement to the son of Andrew Todd. Police inquiries at the time of the child’s disappearance found no link with the Campion case. But Cass is curious. The story twists and turns, leaving the reader guessing, then guessing again . . .

About the author

Caroline de Costa is a Cairns-based doctor and professor at James Cook University who has published numerous healthcare books for women. Since 2015 she has also published three novels in the Detective Cass Diamond crime-fiction series; all are set in Cairns. The first, Double Madness, was shortlisted for the Davitt Awards of Sisters-in-Crime in 2016. Caroline’s short story Screwed won the Kerry Greenwood Award of the 2019 Sisters-in-Crime Scarlet Stiletto award, and two other stories were highly commended in the 2020 Scarlet Stiletto awards.