I would very much like to thank Professor Ian Dadour of the Forensic Science Department, University of Western Australia, for his feedback on the forensic components of the book, Elli Roeder for checking the German perspective, and Bruce and Alison Brown for Kimberley consideration. A huge thank you is in order to my editor Georgia Richter for her detailed and insightful assistance from start to finish. I would like to thank all those at Fremantle Press who have helped in some way into getting this book up and about, with especial gratitude to Clive Newman. Clive was there for my first novel all those years ago and it was pleasing he could be involved in the early stages of this one before retiring. A very big thanks also to my network of family and friends in Perth—Jude, Muffy, Chris, Simone, Dette, Mable, Rob Mak, Johnny and Shevaun—who always keep the home fires burning.