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Detective Sergeant Ellen Destry, alert to rumours of a paedophile ring operating on the Peninsula, is thinking abductlon. Her colleagues are thinking bad family, truancy. Her boss is thinking about the media. And everyone, including Ellen. is wondering whether she’s good enough to handle this jk without D. I. Ćhallis.

But Hal Challis is a thousand kilometres away. watching his father die. Ellen Destry’s running the show on her own. And if she’s right, Katie Blasko may be running out of time

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‘As proof of the continuing high standard of Australian crime nove!s and thrillers, you need only pencil In Garry Disher’s Chain ofEvidence as Exhibit A.' AUSTRALIAN

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