Private Sydney

Even for Private Investigations, the world’s top detective agency, it’s tough to find a man who doesn’t exist ... Craig Gisto has promised Eliza Moss that his elite team at Private Sydney will investigate the disappearance of her father. After all, as the CEO of a high-profile research company, Eric Moss shouldn’t be difficult to find. Except it’s not just the man who’s gone missing, all evidence he ever existed has vanished too. And there are powerful figures pulling the strings who want Moss to stay ‘lost’. But when a woman is found brutally murdered and a baby is missing, Private are suddenly drawn into another frantic search. And this is a case Craig has to throw everything into, because he may well be responsible for sending the killer straight to the victim’s door ...
"BRANCHES FROM THE eucalypts and blue gums cracked as they whipped the electrically charged air. A storm from the east would hit soon and cover his tracks through the dense bushland. The cabin was isolated and close to a river, with a 270- degree vantage of the valley below, but that was in daylight. Every sense on heightened alert, he scanned the doorframe with his night-vision goggles for the two strands of hair he’d positioned in the jamb days before. Locating both, he exhaled as the door eased open. The urn over the fireplace was exactly as he’d left it too, the tiny notches in the wood lined up precisely with its rim. He checked his watch. Ninety seconds."