Eden Carmichael, a politician, is found dead in a brothel on a hot afternoon. Sandra Mahoney mulls over a demeaning photograph showing Carmichael in a dress and blonde wig. When a lobby group asks her to investigate a company producing filters for the internet, Mahoney is surprised to discover a trail that others have ignored. <em>Eden</em> shows Mahoney and her creator, Dorothy Johnston, at their most assured and accomplished yet.<br /><br />'If you combined the two strands of Ruth Rendell and her alter writing ego, Barbara Vine, you'd come close to Dorothy Johnston's talent.' - Ken Bruen, author of <em>The Guards</em><br /><br />Dorothy Johnston's first two Sandra Mahoney novels, <em>The Trojan Dog</em> and <em>The White Tower</em> (Wakefield Press) have been published in the USA by St Martin's Press. Her novels <em>The House at Number 10</em> and <em>One for the Master</em>, which was shortlisted for a Miles Franklin award, are also published by Wakefield Press.