Fatal Impact

When a girl's dead body is found in a toybox, forensic physician and pathologist Anya Crichton joins the police hunt in her home state of Tasmania for the girl's missing mother and sister.Staying with her increasingly erratic mother, Dr Jocelyn Reynolds, Anya fears the long shadow of her sister Miriam's disappearance has finally driven her mother past the brink of sanity.When tests conclude a virulent strain of food poisoning was responsible for the child's death, the deadly outbreak begins to spread. Anya pairs up with Internal Affairs detective Oliver Parke to unravel the sinister connections between the fatal epidemic, the shady deals of a multinational corporation and the alleged murder of a local scientist. Anya must uncover the truth before she is silenced - permanently.

‘Kathryn Fox has created a forensic physician who readers of Patricia Cornwell will adore.’ -- James Patterson, bestselling author
'Fox knows how to write decent prose, create sympathetic characters and pace a thriller, and she keeps the reader turning the pages.' -- Australian Book Review

Kathryn Fox is a medical practitioner with a special interest in forensic medicine who currently lives in Sydney, Australia. She has worked as a freelance medical journalist and written regularly for publications including Australian Doctor, The Sun Herald and various magazines. Her debut novel, Malicious Intent, received international acclaim and won the 2005 Davitt award for adult fiction. Jennifer Vuletic is an Australian actress, singer and NIDA graduate from the class of 1984. She has enjoyed a varied career travelling all over Australia and the world, and has toured internationally with the hit show Mamma Mia!, playing the role of Tanya. She also performed in Menopause The Musical, The Women of Troy and Jerry Springer: The Opera. She has recorded audiobooks for over 24 years and has won numerous awards for her narrations, including the Trish Trinick Award for Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things.

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