Shooting Star Author:Peter Temple Anne Carson: fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted. — Her rich family has closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder, ex-soldier and disgraced police hostage negotiator. They want him to deliver the ransom money to the kidnappers. Frank wants them to call in the law, but the family refuses, since police bungling nearly cost the life of another Carson... more » child kidnapped years before.
But are the two kidnappings connected? And is greed the motivations? Revenge? Or could it be something else? To find out, Frank must go beyond his brief.
As he feverishly searches for suspects in the web of Carson family businesses and deals, marriages and indiscretions, rivalries and intrigues, Frank knows that if his instincts are wrong, the girl will surely die.« less