The Con

The author of The Con, is a story teller, with a purpose. She embeds a wink and a smile in her words. The ropes of Anna's world braid together her rise to success within her chosen profession, the obstacles she encountered, the engulfment by the criminality of one of the "clients".
The author shares her intimate knowledge of her home town, family dysfunction, criminogenic variables and life's work with the reader.
The author plants a surprise ending that readers have said they did not see coming. The intent is for the reader to say "Ah she got me" and to say it while smiling. Anna's life journey personifies the need to be ever vigilant.
The plot enhances the reader's understanding of criminality, family life and blows open the thither closed doors of the elite school system in Perth.
None of the characters are perfect. Anna is described with irritations and weakness in tow. The characters are like the readers. Both share limited capable of moments of brilliance, while living ordinary days.
There are surprising ironies in the plot, set as landmines in a meadow. Anna's interaction with her husband is overlaid with irritation, and she refuses to be his conduit to the world. When a psychopath blows life out from under Anna, her loving boys and husband become her foundation, her conduit to life.
It will appeal to Americans and other internationals who crave knowledge of Australia. They may be surprised at the weather and the flora and bird life Anna encounters. It showcases the "pretty city" of Perth, Western Australia with its lavish communities and clever, sad, traumatized and misguided criminals. It describes the red earth of the goldfields in and around Kalgoorlie. The locals who are rarely acknowledged in print have an established appetite for works about their own area.
The thousands employed within the Justice Department, world wide, who are the unsung heroes of our criminal containment will enjoy The Con. The forensic psychology genre junkies will revel in it.
Happy reading.