AustLit

'Could one woman stop political corruption and start true democracy? Feisty Jane Kenwood is a strong woman councillor and popular public figure in Alexandra City, Southland.
Her debating skills are legendary.
 
She is independent and vociferously opposed to a megacasino proposal. When the Council becomes hung, her vote is critical. She disappears and her colleague and friend, Dr Phillip Keane, a forensic scientist, investigates with the help of her zany friends and a novel forensic method.

Will they find her alive? Will she recover? Will they be able to stop the casino?  Will she be able to transform the city’s fossilised partisan government into the participative democracy she wants?' (Source: Publisher's blurb)