How do you go about solving a murder when no one – including even the victim's wife - is telling the truth? For Brazilian geologist and financial analyst Feisty Ferreira, it means a journey to the rugged Australian outback, where mystery surrounds a massive new gold discovery.
There she meets a strange cast of characters that include a gold mining entrepreneur with a dark secret, a church pastor on a mission to stop the gold from being mined, and a young woman graduate student who serves beer in a pub in her underwear – one of the town's famous skimpies.
And in the background is a mysterious Chinese woman who seems to be trying to buy up the entire output of the new goldmine.
This novella (32,000 words) is the second in the Feisty Ferreira financial mystery series.