Bondi, 1947. Frankie Morrison is the cadet reporter her paper keeps assigning to women's interest, the recitals and reopenings and dog shows nobody else wants. She keeps coming back with something harder: rigged competitions, altered records, a council minute with one word quietly changed. Each investigation crosses into another corner of postwar Bondi, from Connie Reilly's library to the Icebergs' winter pool, and each one costs her something to print. Beside her, and mostly in her way, is Jack Callaghan, a war correspondent home from bigger stories, in a rivalry that slowly turns into a partnership neither will name first.

Character-forward investigative mysteries with warmth, conscience, and a slow-burn romance, solved with a notebook rather than a body. For readers of Jacqueline Winspear, Kerry Greenwood, and Sulari Gentill.

The Books

Cover of Book 1: The Opening Number

Book 1

The Opening Number

A children's ballet recital, filed under women's interest. What Frankie brings back is a rigged competition, a charming predator, and the story respectable Bondi agreed not to print.

Coming soon

Cover of Book 2: The Missing Volume

Book 2

The Missing Volume

Something at the reopened library refuses to add up: a book that fails to match its record, a record altered to fit, and a cataloguer who knows everything and trusts no one.

Coming soon

Cover of Book 3: The Cold Water

Book 3

The Cold Water

One changed word in a council minute could hand the Icebergs' ground to a developer. The proof lives inside a men-only club, behind a door Frankie was never meant to walk through.

Coming soon

Cover of Book 4: The Wrong File

Book 4

The Wrong File

The police have the wrong man in a cell, and the women of Bondi already know it. Then editor Vance makes Frankie share the byline with Jack Callaghan.

Coming soon

Cover of Book 5: The Best in Show

Book 5

The Best in Show

Ribbons and lapdogs, until a champion collie turns out to be the wrong dog and three animals go missing. Kit Moran's vet-nurse eye reads what the pedigrees are lying about.

Coming soon

Cover of Book 6: The Front Page

Book 6

The Front Page

The guesthouse landlady is marrying a quiet man whose war service was never counted. The paper wants a scandal. Frankie files a love story instead, and bets her job on it.

Coming soon

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