In 1992, toddler Yasmin Munoz goes missing from a rainforest picnic spot near Cairns. No trace of her has ever been found. Yet in 2012 Andrew Todd, a wealthy businessman and former mayor of Cairns, dies, and leaves in his will directions for a search for the missing child, who if she is still alive must now

be a young woman. Cairns detective Cass Diamond is asked to help with the search. But Cass sometimes exceeds professional boundaries ... She discovers that in 1990, popular university student Chloe Campion also went missing, from a party in Brisbane celebrating her engagement to the son of Andrew Todd. Police inquiries at the time of the child’s disappearance found no link with the Campion case. But Cass is curious. The story twists and turns, leaving the reader guessing, then guessing again ...

Missing Pieces is the second novel in Caroline de Costa’s Cass Diamond Series, following Double Madness.