Covet

Praise for Covet:

"...Tara Moss is Australia's answer to Patricia Cornwell...This is a fascinating crime thriller that contains a feeling of ever spreading danger."
The Midwest Book Review, USA

"I have been deeply involved in the study of poisons and poisoners for more than a decade...In Covet we have sex, poison, murder... This is a gripping thriller that will keep you turning the pages. Readers who have followed Mak through Fetish and Split will see an evolution in characterisation which parallels Tara’s own rise to the top of her form."
Gail Bell, Poisons Expert, Pharmacist and Award-Winning Author of The Poison Principle

"Covet has plenty of twists and turns to set your pulse racing...Moss truly knows how to crank out compulsive suspense in the tradition of such masters of the genre as Patricia Cornwell and Faye Kellerman."
Travellink Magazine

"Unlike Elle "The Body" Macpherson, model Tara Moss has clearly read more books than she's written, and she writes a mean brand of pulp thriller to boot...Covet is a racy and entertaining thriller that contains a villain every bit as sinister as Hannibal Lecter."
The Age, Australia

"Model-turned-writer Tara Moss is finally getting the respect she deserves for her thrillers."
Sunday Morning Post, China.

"Tara Moss's knack for combining the unglamorous world of modelling with forensic science makes this thriller impossible to put down."
New Woman Magazine

"...page-turning and suspenseful, and thoroughly enjoyable [with a] complex and sympathetic protagonist. I look forward to following her in novels yet to come. The word "spinetingling" has been used often before, but it perfectly describes Covet. Yet the book is much more than that. Tara Moss tells a helluva good story."
Mystery Morgue, USA

"If you thought that Tara Moss's first two novels, Fetish and Split were scary, then you better read Covet in daylight."
Fresh Magazine

* For more reviews of Covet and Tara's other novels see the Author Reviews section

The seductive new thriller from the bestselling author of Fetish and Split.


Eighteen months after her ordeal at the hands of the sadistic 'Stiletto Murderer', fashion model and forensic psychology student Makedde Vanderwall must confront her demons when she returns to Sydney for the trial. But just as the verdict is handed down, the unthinkable happens -- the killer makes a daring escape, aided and abetted by a twisted accomplice that no one suspected ...

Mak is terrified, and ex-boyfriend Detective Andy Flynn, who has a bad habit of employing more madness than method in his work, isn't helping. She decides to leave the country, but the press dog her every move, hindering her safe passage and unknowingly helping the Stiletto Murderer, who's busy rekindling an old fetish ... her ...

Where can she run? Who can she trust? And has she, and the police, underestimated Australia's most notorious serial killer yet again? Sharper than a Manolo four-inch heel, sexier than a Versace fashion show, and more risky than all seven deadly sins, Covet will set your pulse racing.


- Prologue excerpt to be added to this webpage with permission from the author. Stay tuned...
Covet was Launched on August 31 to Poisoning and Mayhem

Covet Press Release August 2004

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