The Afterlife of Harry Playford

Queenscliff, Victoria, 1951.

It's a cold Monday morning. Midwinter. A deserted beach. No swimmers in sight. And there on the sand, a neat pile of clothes. Almost like a coded message waiting to be deciphered.

Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter, an Austrian-born Cockney Jew, always destined to be an outsider, takes up the case…