Carver, Caroline - BLOOD JUNCTION

[LJ Roberts]

BLOOD JUNCTION – G

Carver, Caroline – 1st book

When journalist India Kane travels from Sydney to the outback town of Cooinda for a reunion with her friend, Lauren, she has no idea of the town's appalling history. Forty years earlier an entire aboriginal family had been massacred there. Picked up by an off-duty cop when her car dies en route, India arrives in Cooinda to find that Lauren has disappeared. The next day Lauren's body-and the cop who helped India-are found murdered. India, the last person to have seen the cop alive, is arrested for murder. India knows that she has been framed for the murder, and resolves to find out why Lauren died. In time, she ties these deaths to the earlier massacre and discovers a beautiful, yet awful truth about her own history.

While this book provides an excellent sense of the Outback of Australia and provides a picture of the appalling treatment of the Aborigines, the plot lacked continuity and plausibility.