This is the 51st Instalment in the Novella Series detailing the life and career of Detective Joseph Lind.

His work took a back seat as he recuperated from major heart surgery and a decent clunk on the head as he fell and hit his head on the side of his desk as he suffered the major heart attack.

Upon his return to work, his mojo was sadly lacking and it took his presence in the two concurrent Terrorist attacks in Sydney, the closure of his long-time friend Knacker’s death and the solving of the “The Three Bodies in the Bathtub” Case before he again found his enthusiasm for the job.

It is said that we are all capable of murder given the right set of circumstances and chain of events.

Lind and Shields are allocated what looks like a ‘standard’ Domestic Violence Homicide and Suicide Case. The ‘bread and butter’ of all Homicide Cops with Domestic Violence matters taking up over 80% of the workload of all State Police Forces Australia-wide. Is this Case so different from all the others? Yes, so it seems when close friends, near neighbours and an adamant, strident daughter reject the allegations of the middle-aged man killing his wife of forty-odd years of marriage then suiciding himself.

A quartet of young, adventurous British tourists are preparing to bed down for the night at a Road-side Rest Area between Wilcannia and Broken Hill. Their night … their lives are shattered when a bloody spectre emerges from the darkness of the Desert, threatening to shoot them.

Three weeks later, two of the four are found dead, suspected of taking their own lives.

Is it because of that horrific night now dubbed Terror at 9:00PM by the local Broken Hill Media arms?

What is the connection between the two Cases separated by several years?