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Kate is 28. She works in the accounts department of an insurance company. She's bored but what awaits her in small town Goran Vale might perk things up.

 

Ben is 30. He's a cop who lives in a tiny cottage in Goran Vale and has his profile on several dating sites. He promised his parents he would return home to the far outback as soon as he could get a transfer. He gets his transfer offer about the same time Kate arrives in town.

 

Bobby Ray is a slow-thinking man of 40. He's placid enough but don't try to hurt his little sister, Katie, otherwise you could end up in an ambulance.

 

Tom Lloyd is a retired local cop who knew Bobby Ray as a young boy. He had written off any involvement Bobby may have had in the disappearance of young Melanie Rose after the Tulip Festival dance back in 1986. But the cold-case missing person's file is about to be re-opened.

 

Tom's granddaughter, Alyssa, is in need of some excitement. She's 19 years old and prepared to overlook the age difference between she and Bobby Ray.

 

Goran Vale thrived up until the 1970’s, when the local highway was bypassed by a new freeway. This ended the passing tourist trade in the area and with the scaling back of timber milling in favour of forestry protection, the small town went to sleep. When readers of ‘Remains of a Local Girl’ arrive in Goran Vale in 2003, the town looks as it did in 1980, only it has withered in the sun and the wind and the rain.