Fatal Impact

When a girl's dead body is found in a toybox, forensic physician and pathologist Anya Crichton joins the police hunt in her home state of Tasmania for the girl's missing mother and sister.

Staying with her increasingly erratic mother, Dr Jocelyn Reynolds, Anya fears the long shadow of her sister Miriam's disappearance has finally driven her mother past the brink of sanity.

When tests conclude a virulent strain of food poisoning was responsible for the child's death, the deadly outbreak begins to spread. Anya pairs up with Internal Affairs detective Oliver Parke to unravel the sinister connections between the fatal epidemic, the shady deals of a multinational corporation and the alleged murder of a local scientist. Anya must uncover the truth before she is silenced - permanently. Kathryn Fox is a medical practitioner with a special interest in forensic medicine. She is the author of the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed thrillers Malicious Intent, Without Consent, Skin and Bone, Blood Born and Death Mask. Her debut novel, Malicious Intent, won the 2005 Davitt award for adult fiction and her books have been translated into over a dozen languages. Kathryn lives in Sydney and combines her passion for books and medicine by being the patron of a reading programme for remote and Indigenous communities that promotes the links between literacy and health.