TY - BOOK AU - Hickey,Margaret TI - Stone Town T2 - Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti SN - 9780143777274 PY - 2022/// CY - Sydney PB - Bantam KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Fiction KW - Missing persons KW - Organized crime KW - South Australia KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - lcgft KW - Detective and mystery stories N1 - "Where land is the new gold. and people will die for it."-- Cover N2 - With its gold rush history long in the past, Stone Town has definitely seen better days. And it's now in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. When three teenagers stumble upon a body in dense bushland one rainy Friday night, Senior Sergeant Mark Ariti's hopes for a quiet posting in his old home town are shattered. The victim is Aidan Sleeth, a local property developer, whose controversial plans to buy up Stone Town land means few are surprised he ended up dead. However his gruesome murder is overshadowed by the mystery consuming the entire nation: the disappearance of Detective Sergeant Natalie Whitsted. Natalie had been investigating the celebrity wife of crime boss Tony 'The Hook' Scopelliti when she vanished. What did she uncover? Has it cost her her life? And why are the two Homicide detectives, sent from the city to run the Sleeth case, so obsessed with Natalie's fate? But following a late-night call from his former boss, Mark is sure of one thing: he's now in the middle of a deadly game ER -