She also finds herself gifted with a powerfully magical knife by the boatman who mysteriously tells Verity that they are trying to break the sky. She kills the Winemaker by pushing her into the oven. Verity tracks down the evil Winemaker and in an almighty battle manages to rescue Lizzie, the child of her neighbour, Mel. In a investigation with connections to Verity's dark personal family history, children are going missing and on the market discreetly is the finest wine made from the tears of the deepest despair of dying children. This story hotwired me to my childhood memories of fairytales given the darkest of slants, along with biblical and mythological tales. She has a fraught and complicated relationship with her boss, Bela, and is close to her driver and helper Ziggi. We have a kick ass, half blood, PI Verity Fassbinder, whose only weyrd gift is her phenomenal strength, and is blessed with a grumpy and snarky attitude. Angela Slatter has constructed a detailed world populated by the Weyrds and the Normals who are precariously managing to co-exist thanks to diligent policing by the likes of Bela, Verity and DI Rhoda McIntyre, a normal. This is a dark fantasy crime thriller set in Brisbane and I adored it.
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