Twenty-five years ago, seventeen-year-old Isabel was murdered, but a discovery from a time capsule reopens the police investigation into the crime.
Her story was buried with her, but years later the truth starts to surface.
In 1994, seventeen-year-old Isabel Baker was murdered. The crime shocked the small town of Ashford and devastated Isabel’s family and her South Sea Islander community. The case was never solved, the killer never found. ?
But in 2019 the opening of a time capsule unearths a secret that puts cold-case Detective James Cormack on the trail of the killer. Suspicion is cast over the entire town, fracturing the harmony they have spent 25 years rebuilding. ?
The story will unfolds avross two different timeframes, with Isabel rooting the 1994 strand and Detective James Cormack anchoring the 2019 strand. Black Snow combines the character driven storytelling of a coming-of-age drama with a gripping crime mystery rooted in the atmospheric, mountainous setting of North Queensland’s sugar cane fields.