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Sam Rhys, a former San Francisco Homicide Inspector now a political science professor at the University in Perth on the western coast of Australia where the locals are referred to as "Sandgropers", is happy. Happy to be termed a "Sandgroper". Happy to be in this sunny, laidback land near his friend from college, Alex Rosen. Happy to be in love with Martha Malaxos, Sam's personal, tall, blonde Greek goddess.

Sam Rhys has two problems. Custody of a suspicious sealed package found floating in the ocean near a friend’s cray traps and a job offer from a set of mysterious clients who communicate only through a laptop in an abandoned office building - to do an undercover investigation of a prominent businessman in Perth. Herbert Hocking has created a brilliant series of mesmerizing adventures for Sam Rhys in the breathtaking landscape of Western Australia.

Sam Rhys is still haunted by one of his cases - the brutal rape and murder of a little girl - when he was a homicide detective in San Francisco years ago. Her killer left her twisted in a pathetic pose of a damaged doll. The crime scene was so horrific that seasoned investigators couldn’t bear to look at her body unless they imagined her a mangled mannequin, not a real flesh-and-blood little girl.