Detective Fawlkner Dundee thought that the Rose Garden Motel in beautiful Port Macquarie would be a quiet place to rebound from his marriage breakdown, but he was sadly mistaken.

The murder of Edith Campbell leads him into emotional turmoil as he investigates her dark past, years of abuse, kidnapping and blackmail on a larger scale than he had ever imagined.

There soon becomes so many suspects it is hard to define who the killer may be, the real surprise is that she had not been murdered sooner. His heart goes out to his suspects as he hears their sad stories. Travelling across N.S.W. he gets to experience the history of the beautiful places that his investigations will take him.

In his search he is also able to find a new prospective on life as he chases down the killer. 

Veins of Ice, is Mary Dean’s latest exciting novel.