Paul Harrigan is a top cop who has survived the corruption and political manoeuvrings of the NSW Police. So far .Grace Riordan has left the Service and now works in the shadowy world of undercover intelligence - so she and Harrigan can't talk about work much. Harrigan is called to a grisly murder scene in Sydney's wealthy north: four dinner guests are seated around the dinner table - all dead. One of them a Senator's ex-wife; one of them a missing corrupt NSW detective. And the mummified condition of the detective's body - identified by a distinctive tattoo - suggests he has been dead for quite some time .While Harrigan is facing the demons of his past, Grace is drawn into the investigation through some very unofficial enquiries of her own. Enquiries which will lead to a flashpoint neither can predict.

Politics, corruption, big business, espionage and illicit technology . Alex Palmer weaves them all into a heart-stopping race for the truth.Praise for Alex Palmer's Blood Redemption'Palmer . has stepped confidently into the cutting edge psychological thriller genre inhabited by the likes of Gabrielle Lord and Minette Walters' Adelaide Advertiser'an intelligent and compelling thriller that turns the notion of evil inside out' Canberra Times'imbued with a biting realism' Bookseller and PublisherBlood Redemption won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel, the Canberra Critics Circle Award for Literature and the Sisters in Crime Davitt Award.