Signs of murder (Anna Southwood mystery)

Fiona Galloway is a young, deaf social worker - self-assured, confident and successful.

But after a series of threatening letters are delivered to her door, her composure is shaken.

Fearing for her safety, she turns to private eye Anna Southwood for help.

Anna accepts the case with little to go on.

But the clock is ticking on, and things take a sinister turn for the worse when Fiona is found brutally attacked and beaten half to death.

Fiona tells Anna that she thinks the threats may be linked to her client, Jackie Sims, who is in Long Bay gaol on a murder charge.

With the two cases seemingly related but with no hard evidence, Anna struggles to piece together the stories and trace them back to perpetrators.

Who is so concerned about what Fiona knows that they would attempt to silence her in such a sadistic manner?

Anna soon realises that there is more behind this case that initially meets the eye.

With the body count increasing, she begins a race against the clock to untangle the web of intrigue - a world of crooked lawyers, shady doctors, members of Sydney’s criminal underworld, and layers of secrets and corruption ...

Praise for Signs of Murder:

‘Bedford has such a great eye and ear for the way we are and speak that it is a pleasure to burn the midnight oil’ - ITA Magazine

‘Bedford is up with the best’- Graeme Blundell, The Australian