On any given night in Australia, 1 person in 200 is homeless…
Someone is targeting Adelaide’s homeless.
Men are disappearing off the streets, and body parts are turning up at a local dump.
Still haunted by her last run-in with a serial killer, Cass Lehman is trying hard to focus on a normal future with her partner, Detective Ed Dyson. That’s not easy when she has the ‘gift’ of retrocognition… the ability to spontaneously re-live a person’s dying moments. As Cass finds herself entangled in her strangest case yet, she realises that living a normal life may be difficult, but staying alive could be the biggest challenge of all.
Despite the cats (and more recently a dog) sitting on her keyboard, Melanie Casey is determined to write. She studied English literature, classical studies and law, and has forged a career as a senior leader in a busy Commonwealth Government Department. In 2005, a chance encounter with a high school English teacher made her realise she’d neglected her creativity. Inspired (and slightly chastened), Melanie honed her skills at The Professional Writing School at Adelaide’s College of the Arts. She now teaches there.
Melanie loves talking crime and has done so at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, Crime & Justice Festival, Newtown Festival, Bellingen Readers’ and Writers’ Festival, Griffith Readers’ Festival and Crime Fest. She was part of the ‘Blood on your Hands’ panel at Supanova Brisbane. Melanie is a frequent workshop presenter with a focus on character creation, and a Sisters in Crime member/presenter.
Born in South Australia, Melanie juggles her day job, a demanding writing and teaching schedule and a family.
Meet popular crime author Melanie Casey to discuss the third novel in her Cass Lehman Psychic Series, Missing.
Missing is a modern-day crime fiction with a psychic twist, as Cass uses her unwanted psychic abilities to unravel a.twisted tale of love, desperation and murder.
When the psychic meets the psychotic, who will come out unscathed?
SMSA (Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts)