Shooting Star by Peter Temple

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Small insect marks on inside front cover and synopsis page.

Anne Carson- fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted. The rich Carsons have closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder, subject to strict instructions. This is not the first kidnapping in the Carson family and hard lessons have been learned. But are the two events connected? And is greed the motivation? Revenge? Or could it be something else?

To find out, Frank Calder must go beyond his brief. And his every step into the darkness may end a girl's life. back cover)