Sand Dancer

Semilla Rachman, an internationally-renowned performer, goes missing in front of a packed theatre audience on a return visit to her home town. Has she staged the whole thing - or are forces more sinister at play? The girl's mother believes it's the latter, with her ex-husband topping her suspect list. Detective Sergeant Ryan Jarrod, struggling with a sick grandmother and a heavily-pregnant girlfriend, hopes it's the former. The last thing he needs is a high-profile abduction but, when a ransom note arrives, followed by menacing threats of the darkest kind, Jarrod knows his luck is out. The search for the missing girl takes Jarrod and his accomplices into a world of politics and performance, jealousy and adoration, friends and stalkers - any one of whom could be the centre point of this heart-stopping, page-turning mystery...M.F