An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire

When 25-year-old Bella Michaels is brutally murdered in the small town of Strathdee, the community is stunned and a media storm descends.

Unwillingly thrust into the eye of that storm is Bella's beloved older sister, Chris, a barmaid at the local pub, whose easygoing nature conceals hard-won wisdom and the kind of street-smarts only experience can bring.

An Isolated Incident is a psychological thriller about everyday violence, the media's obsession with pretty dead girls, the grip of grief and the myth of closure. It's a novel about the difficulty of knowing the difference between a ghost and a memory, between a monster and a man.

Genres: Crime - Mystery - Australia - Mystery Thriller - Thriller - Feminism - Contemporary - Australian Author