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At the Melbourne Supreme Court in August 1882, Robert Francis Burns stands accused of murdering his travelling companion, Charles Forbes. As the witnesses take the stand and the evidence is picked apart, Burns finds himself increasingly at ease as a spectator of his own trial, the solemn proceedings occasionally taking on the character of pantomime. Read more
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A blue diamond with a fractured history draws Lili Chan ever closer to the secrets she carried from San Francisco. As Detective Forster begins to assemble the evidence, another broken identity is being reconstituted in the Chinese realm of the dead, with the aid of the unlikely Daoist shaman Mow Fung Read more
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Some days later, Lili received Kaminski’s note asking her to call at his shop when she was able. Wary that the tong may be keeping an eye on the jeweller’s, she penned a note and gave it to hotel reception to deliver to Detective Forster at Russell Street. “You mentioned,” she said when he arrived… Read more
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It was well within the seven-times-seven days of the bardo – sacred interval! – when Lena had seen the detective as she came into Deep Lead from the bush track and he turned just in time to see her slipping in and out of the mirage – lately such an everyday phenomenon in the bush… Read more
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Lili was accompanied to the senior inspector’s office by the sergeant who had been stationed to guard her door for the night. Forster sat there quietly looking out through the closed window onto the parade ground, where some drills were in progress. The sounds of horses and the raised voices of drill instructors broke into… Read more
