A Necessary Murder: A Heloise Chancey Mystery

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Stoke Newington, 1863: Little Margaret Lovejoy is found brutally murdered in the outhouse at her familys estate. A few days later, a man is cut down in a similar manner on the doorstep of courtesan and professional detective Heloise Chanceys prestigious address. At the same time, Heloises maid, Amah Li Leen, must confront events from her past that appear to have erupted into the present day. Once again Heloise is caught up in a maelstrom of murder and deceit that threatens to reach into the very heart of her existence.

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M.J. Tija has a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Studies (QUT). Her novella The Fish Girl, written under her real name Mirandi Riwoe, won Seizures Viva La Novella and is shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize. She was awarded a Fellowship at Varuna, the National Writers House in 2014 and has also been shortlisted for the Josephine Ulrick Short Story Prize, Overlands Neilma Sidney Short Story and the Luke Bitmead Bursary. She was also long-listed for the CWA Debut Dagger in 2015. Her work has appeared in the Review of Australian Fiction, Rex, Peril and Shibboleth and Other Stories. She lives in Brisbane.