2009

This time, Mak Vanderwall is hired by a widowed mother to find her missing 19-year-old son. Has something happened to him, or has he run off with a troupe of French cabaret performers touring Australia with a modern, avant-garde production of the Grand Guignol Theatre of Fear, famous in Paris in the early 20th century?

Meanwhile, Mak becomes increasingly obsessed with the powerful Cavanagh family, one of the wealthiest in Australia, whom she believes may have committed a murder without being charged. According to her security advisor, Mr. White, the family has not forgotten about her either.

Rights have been sold to Germany and France.