This book was recognised in the Crime Fiction - YA category by the Ned Kelly Award for Australian Crime Writing.

There are 224 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Hachette Australia .

Gary Crew is well known for his rich, multi-layered and intensely suspenseful bestselling novels for young adults. Four times the winner of the CBC Book of the Year Award, as well as other numerous awards, Gary was a high school English teacher for eighteen years, before turning to university lecturing and full-time writing. He lives in Queensland.