Taken

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Author
Dinuka McKenzie
Publisher
HarperCollins
Genre
Crime Fiction
Released
01 February, 2023
ISBN
9781460762417

Taken

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Synopsis

A parent's worst nightmare. A case that's too close to home. The tense, must-read new Detective Kate Miles novel from the award-winning author of The Torrent.

'I was in the shower. I left Sienna in her bassinet ... When I got out ... She was gone.'

Detective Sergeant Kate Miles is back from maternity leave and struggling on multiple fronts - the pressures of a second child, financial strain from her husband losing his job, and a corruption scandal that may involve her father.

When an infant goes missing, Kate finds herself fronting a high-profile and emotionally fraught case. Was baby Sienna removed from her bassinet by an unknown abductor or is the answer much closer to home?

Amidst a frenzied media demanding answers, and a station chief looking for any reason to remove her from the investigation, Kate is pushed to her limits, pulled between the competing demands of the family at the centre of the case and her own spiralling personal life.

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Mothers in Crime Fiction: An Article by Dinuka McKenzie, Author of Taken

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17 February 2023

Mothers in Crime Fiction: An Article by Dinuka McKenzie, Author of Taken

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      Dinuka McKenzie
      About the author

      Dinuka McKenzie

      Dinuka McKenzie is an Australian writer and book addict. Her debut crime fiction novel, The Torrent, won the HarperCollins Australia 2020 Banjo Prize and was published in February 2022. She is represented by Alex Adsett Literary.

      When not writing, Dinuka works in the environmental sector and volunteers as part of the team behind the Writers Unleashed Festival. She lives in Southern Sydney with her husband, two kids and their pet chicken.

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