Barb Young has accepted an invitation from her new friend, retired detective John Mayne, to spend a week at a rural mansion in the Southern Highlands. Mayne is acting as the 'Crime Consultant' for a writers' room, tasked with turning late author Clara Jenkins's bestselling, prize-winning novel into a television series. Clara drowned 20 years ago, just after finishing the book, and her four best friends, now running a successful production company, are writing and producing the series. To add to this mix is Clara's son, also a writer, and representatives from the streaming service Gorge, financiers of the series.
When one of the members of the writers' room is found dead at the bottom of a nearby cliff, the police consider it a tragic accident. However, Barb and Mayne aren't so sure and decide to start digging. But even they are not prepared for what they are about to discover ...
When one of the members of the writers' room is found dead at the bottom of a nearby cliff, the police consider it a tragic accident. However, Barb and Mayne aren't so sure and decide to start digging. But even they are not prepared for what they are about to discover ...