Leah Giarratano - Black Ice (Detective Jill Jackson Mysteries)

Praise for Voodoo Doll

'Clinical psychologist turned thriller writer Leah Giarratano brings a wealth of professional experience to her art... a page-turner, note-worthy for its expert characterisation and often chilling psychological veracity.' The Age

'Voodoo Doll is more chiller than thriller. It's cleverly plotted and crackles along at an electric pace. I'm sure Giarratano has a growing fan base and it's great to see local talent getting an outing.' Good Reading

'This is a seriously good read. Giarratano is taking on the big guns, and winning.' MX Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney

'I suspect a series. Bring it on.' Sue Turnbull, Sydney Morning Herald

'Plumbing the depths of her experience... Giarratano's writing has an air of authenticity missing from the work of her peers. Creepy, nasty and oddly compelling, it's definitely not light reading.' GQ Australia

Praise for Vodka Doesn't Freeze

'There's a true-crime relentlessness about Vodka Doesn't Freeze that suggests it's been written from the heart by someone who really cares deeply about child abuse.' Sue Turnbull, Sydney Morning Herald

'Giarratano writes with a style that immediately grabs and holds your attention, diving unerringly to the heart of each scene and describing it in full, no-nonsense detail. Her characters are filled with flaws that beg to be examined more closely and she satisfies this need, laying bare the good and the bad in equal measure.' www.crimedownunder.com

'Particularly nasty crime fiction that threatens to keep you awake at night can always be dismissed with that hoary old chestnut "It's only make-believe"... No such comfort with a debut book by Leah Giarratano.' Lucy Clark, Sunday Telegraph

Also by Leah Giarratano

Vodka Doesn't Freeze
Voodoo Doll

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Black Ice

ePub ISBN 9781864714289
Kindle ISBN 9781864716627

Black Ice is a work of fiction. All the characters and scenes in this book are fictitious and any resemblance to any actual person, living or dead, or to any current or past event, is purely coincidental.

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First published by Bantam in 2009

Copyright Leah Giarratano 2009

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National Library of Australia
Cataloguing-in-Publication Entry

Giarratano, Leah.
Black ice.

ISBN: 9781741668094

Policewomen New South Wales Sydney Fiction.

A823.4

Cover illustration by Super Stock
Cover design by blacksheep-uk.com
Internal design by Midland Typesetters, Australia
Typeset by Midland Typesetters, Australia
Printed and bound by Griffin Press, South Australia

For Joshua George. Semper Fidelis.

This book is dedicated to Aunty Nancy.
And Beetle.

In vino veritas.