AustLit

'Lyn Sutton, now in her 20s, finally tracks down her dad–last seen when she was six and he was arrested for robbery and murder. Remarried, with a second family and a plumbing business in New South Wales, dad Roger is hardly eager to acknowledge Lyn, but soon this reconciliation takes second place as she responds to a note–misdelivered–desperately asking for help to avert a murder! The purported sender, Vi–living with her charming husband; wheelchair-bound nephew, Peter; and cantankerous, independent, alcoholic in-law, the aging Edith–seems, to Lyn, to be quite safe, until the brakes slip on Edith's car, nearly leveling her. Accidental? Meanwhile, a dashing young man on a motorcycle is following Lyn; Edith, perhaps despondent, ingests something fatal; and Peter's tutor casts new light on the rock-climbing slip that crippled the youngster–or did it? There's a tortuous caving expedition before Lyn understands exactly who in Vi's house is really being menaced–and how it ties in (all too neatly) with her dad's crime of years ago.'

Source: Kirkus Reviews.