Showing The Beat: A True Account of the Bondi Gay Murders by I. J. Fenn

In June 2001, 12 years after television newsreader, Ross Warrren, disappeared following an evening out with friends in Sydney, a police operation was set up to reinvestigate the disappearance. What this new investigation uncovered was to prove far more interesting than the anticipated 'missing persons' case.

This was only the starting point for Operation Taradale, which quickly turned into a horrifying saga of multipe murders committed mostly within a few hundred metres of each other - in Marks Park, the beat, the scrubby, rocking headland between Bondi and Tamarama.

I.J. Fenn moves the story along with the pace of a detective thriller. Telephones are tapped, surveillance operations put in place, crime scenes re-enacted to ignite media interest and arrests are made. The Beat is an ugly story about ugly people committing ugly crimes. This is a disturbing book, but you will not be able to put it down.