Hades

Twenty years before the main events, two children were kidnapped and left for dead. A master criminal took them in and raised them, and they grew up to join the police. Eden Archer and her brother Eric now both serve on the Sydney Metro police force.

Homicide detective Frank Bennett has just been given Eden as his partner. She is dark, beautiful and coldly efficient, and he finds her more enigmatic than any colleague he has worked with, her brother included.

The case begins when a local man finds a graveyard of large steel toolboxes on the floor of the harbor. Each one holds human body parts. Frank treats the killer's clues as a puzzle that draws him in. For Eden and Eric the boxes point back to their scarred childhood and to the man who raised them, a murderous mentor named Hades.

This is a crime thriller set in Sydney, built around a serial killer investigation and a partnership between two very different detectives. The tone is dark and the details are grisly. The evil behind the case reaches further than one killer's handiwork, and the investigation tests all three officers.