Justine A. Rosenthal

A journalist investigates intriguing people, places and cultures.

Born into a world of gangs and crime, a young boy dreams of becoming a pro skateboarder, spending his days at Venice Beach Skatepark.

In the vast, little-understood wilderness of Australia’s Cape York, fortune-hunters hide amongst the mangroves and the crocs, seeking to bend the ancient laws of nature to their will. When a ten-year-old boy and his father vanish while checking their shark nets, it unravels a dynastic alliance between mighty fishing clans. A mother and son are accused of murder and a love triangle gone horribly wrong raises questions of guilt and complicity that ripple out far beyond the alleged killers.