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    By Tara Moss

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    She's street-smart, stunning and hoping to leave her troubled past behind...
    Makedde Vanderwall is ready to start work as a forensic psychologist... and a new life in Australia with her detective boyfriend, Andy Flynn. Hoping to scrape together some extra cash, Mak begins working part-time for an infamous Sydney PI. With a knack for investigation and bending the law, she might just have stumbled across her true calling - and the career choice that could finally bust up her relationship once and for all. then she is hired to investigate the murder of A-list PA Meaghan Wallace. the police believe it's an open and shut case but Mak discovers that it's a lot more complicated...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Australia
    Release dateJan 31, 2010
    ISBN9780730400288
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    Tara Moss

    Tara Moss is a Canadian born bestselling author, and award-winning human rights and disability advocate. She has written 14 books of fiction and non-fiction published in 19 countries in over a dozen languages, including her #1 international bestselling memoir The Fictional Woman. Her latest book is the historical crime thriller The Ghosts of Paris, following on from the international bestseller, The War Widow, both featuring 1940s ‘staunchly feminist, champagne-swilling, fast-driving Nazi hunter’ investigator Billie Walker. Moss is a long-standing UNICEF ambassador. In 2021 she was chosen as a Global Change Maker by Conscious Being magazine for her disability and chronic pain activism and was a recipient of the Honorary Citizen Award for the City of Victoria for her work on accessibility rights. In 2015 she received an Edna Ryan Award for her significant contribution to feminist debate, speaking out for women and children and inspiring others to challenge the status quo, and in 2017 she was recognised as one of the Global Top 50 Diversity Figures in Public Life, for using her position in public life to make a positive impact in diversity, alongside Malala Yousufzai, Angelina Jolie and more. Her in-depth book research has seen her earn her private investigator credentials, tour the FBI Academy at Quantico, spend time in morgues and criminology conferences, take polygraph tests, shoot weapons, conduct surveillance, pass the Firearms Training Simulator (FATSII) with the LAPD, and acquire her CAMS race driver licence. She has hosted many documentaries, including Tough Nuts – Australia’s Hardest Criminals on CI and Amazon Prime, Tara Moss Investigates on Nat Geo, author interview show Tara in Conversation, and Cyberhate with Tara Moss. She has spoken at hundreds of schools and festivals, interviewed Gloria Steinem, Naomi Klein, Alison Bechdel and more. She lives with her family in BC. Visit her at taramoss.com 

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    • 3/5
      I enjoyed this Makedde Vanderwall story as the character had developed greatly since her first appearance in Fetish. She is more rounded and more in charge of her life, less of the victim. Unfortunately, when I think of Makedde, or Mak as she likes to be called, I can't help but picture the author who like her character is an ex model and has moved from Canada to Australia. I'm sure there are many differences, the least of which is that Mak has blonde hair and the author doesn't.

      One negative about the writing style is the way conversations are drawn out. One character will say something and then there are a couple paragraphs of narrative and before a few words from the other character before you have another couple of paragraphs of narrative. These drawn out conversations kind of put a brake on the story, usually when you are about to find out something interesting.

      I look forward to the next book in the series.
    • 2/5
      The plot of this was all the kept me reading and I was displeased to find that the ending amounted to "to be continued". I did not engage with any of the characters and the author's determination to show and tell would have been irritating even had she used a less repetitive vocabulary. This is an interesting premise wasted.
    • 1/5
      Seriously bad. Badly written, annoying characters.
    • 4/5
      My first Tara Moss book in awhile :) I really love the way she writes her lead character, Mak, as an independent woman who doesn't wait around for someone to help her out; she just does her own thing even though she's in a relationship. I admire that. However, I don't "buy" the relationships Mak has with her female friends. I don't know why; maybe it's the way the friends, namely Loulou, are written. I don't buy Loulou is real; she just comes off like a cartoon character. The crime elements of these books are fantastic, IMO. I really enjoy the glimpses into the killers frame of mind as well as the detectives, getting the perspective from all sides not just the central character. To do that convincingly is very difficult but Moss pulls it off easily. The books are great stand alone novels, but also work well as a series. I look forward to reading the next one :)
    • 3/5
      Another typical Tara Moss 'whodunit' book. I enjoy Tara/Makadde novels, others I know, do not. I will be watching for another episode in Makadde's life. It was certainly not the worst book I have borrowed, and will happily return for more of Makadde.