Tipping point / Dinuka McKenzie.

By: McKenzie, Dinuka [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: McKenzie, Dinuka. Kate Miles ; 3.Publisher: Gadigal Country ; [Sydney, NSW] : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Description: 357 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781460762431 (paperback)Subject(s): Miles, Kate, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Detective and mystery stories | Australian fiction | Secrecy -- Fiction | Crime fiction | Detectives -- New South Wales -- Fiction | Suicide -- Fiction | Estranged families -- Fiction | Women detectives -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Friendship -- Fiction | New South Wales -- FictionGenre/Form: Adult fiction | Detective and mystery fiction | Crime-Australia -- Adult fiction -- Print | Detective and mystery fiction | Australian fiction | Australian fiction | Detective and mystery fiction.DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: A suicide. A shooting. And a reckoning, decades in the making. Weeks from Christmas in the sweltering heat of summer, Detective Kate Miles' estranged brother, Luke Grayling, returns home to Esserton to farewell a childhood friend - Ant Reed, dead by suicide. Within days of the funeral, another young man, Marcus Rowntree, is found shot dead in the back paddock of his property. Almost twenty years ago, Luke, Ant and Marcus were best mates in high school and now two of the three friends are dead. A tragic coincidence? Or is there something more sinister connecting the three men? When Luke is identified as a person of interest in Marcus's death, Kate once again finds herself in the middle of a media storm, sidelined from the case and battling accusations of conflict of interest. As press attention deepens, and uncomfortable truths about Luke's personal life and past events come to light, Kate is forced to contend between loyalty to the police force, and the bonds of friendship and blood.
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A suicide. A shooting. And a reckoning, decades in the making. Weeks from Christmas in the sweltering heat of summer, Detective Kate Miles' estranged brother, Luke Grayling, returns home to Esserton to farewell a childhood friend - Ant Reed, dead by suicide. Within days of the funeral, another young man, Marcus Rowntree, is found shot dead in the back paddock of his property. Almost twenty years ago, Luke, Ant and Marcus were best mates in high school and now two of the three friends are dead. A tragic coincidence? Or is there something more sinister connecting the three men? When Luke is identified as a person of interest in Marcus's death, Kate once again finds herself in the middle of a media storm, sidelined from the case and battling accusations of conflict of interest. As press attention deepens, and uncomfortable truths about Luke's personal life and past events come to light, Kate is forced to contend between loyalty to the police force, and the bonds of friendship and blood.

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