Deception

Detective Senior Constable Deidre Kelly’s mother, celebrity journalist Meryl Kelly, was murdered as she attempted to expose a global paedophile ring. Dee was fifteen. Her life shattered. A decade on, her boss is Detective Superintendent Arnold, the officer who investigated her mother’s murder.

While investigating a vicious rape, Dee learns that another journalist has been murdered. She recognises the MO. Like her mother, the victim had published a story on paedophiles; had received threatening letters; was lured to an isolated location; and was then killed by a single gunshot to the middle of the forehead. Subsequently allocated to work on both cases Dee is shocked to uncover a link between the murdered journalist and the rape victim, suggesting a single perpetrator.

She is contacted by journalist, Ben Knott, who has found Meryl’s original research on the paedophile ring widely believed to have organised her murder. Meryl was Ben’s first mentor, and he counts both the latest victims as friends. He is equally desperate for answers, and he offers ongoing help which Dee cautiously accepts.

Determined to solve her mother’s murder once and for all, she has the old investigation reopened, and this time, with Ben’s help, she is determined to find the answers she so desperately needs.