Barb Young has accepted an invitation from her new friend, retired detective John Mayne, to spend a week at a rural mansion in the Southern Highlands. Mayne is acting as the 'Crime Consultant' for a writers' room, tasked with turning late author Clara Jenkins's bestselling, prize-winning novel into a television series. Clara drowned 20 years ago, just after finishing the book, and her four best friends, now running a successful production company, are writing and producing the series. To add to this mix is Clara's son, also a writer, and representatives from the streaming service Gorge, financiers of the series.
When one of the members of the writers' room is found dead at the bottom of a nearby cliff, the police consider it a tragic accident. However, Barb and Mayne aren't so sure and decide to start digging. But even they are not prepared for what they are about to discover ...
