A MOTHERS SILENCE CAN BE DEADLY"All my life, I've waited for my mother's affection. Now I must compete with a dead woman."A mother's secret: Intrigued to learn her mother once lived in Italy, a secret she has kept for thirty years, Harriet (Harrie) Taylor accepts the challenge to determine if the remains known only as the Positano Skeleton belong to her mother's long-lost friend. It's as good an excuse as any to escape Australia and the stench of career failure. And succeeding just might prove her worth-as a journalist and a daughter. An Italian odyssey:Harrie finds beautiful Positano isn't quite the sun-soaked paradise of the holiday brochures, despite the attentions of sexy bar owner, Antonio. No one wants to talk to a foreigner about the skeleton or the past, least of all the local commissario who has fresher bodies to worry about. How can she probe old secrets when she doesn't even speak the language? Then a homeless man hands her a photograph and Harrie is forced to question how far she will go to find the truth.

Rowena Holloway is an Australian author or suspense novels and short stories. Her novels have been nominated for the Ned Kelly Award Crime Fiction award and the Sisters In Crime Davitt Awards and her first novel, which was later published as All That's Left Unsaid, semi-finaled in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Her short stories explore crime, suspense, relationships and some of the darker English folklore, and these have been included in several anthologies including the Anthology of Award Winning Australian Writing.