Blood Junction - Tapa dura

Set in the unforgiving landscape of the Australian outback, this is the story of India Kane, a Sydney journalist who is arrested for murder after her friend and an off-duty cop are found dead in the little town of Cooinda - a town with an appalling history and renamed Blood Junction by the locals.

CJ Carver was born in the UK. At 22 she went to Australia for a holiday and stayed for 10 years, working in publishing and travelling. In 1992 she took part in the London to Saigon Car Rally, where she and her co-driver were the only all-female crew on a 63-day, 12,500 mile journey. In 1993, she fell into freelance writing and since then has worked locally while writing and travelling. In 1998, she completed the London to Cape Town Car Rally, once again the only all-female crew. She blames her love of adventure on her parents: her mother set the land speed record in Australia and her father was a jet fighter pilot.