Where was his God who had protected him for so many years? The stone statues he had prayed to, the plaster effigies who smiled upon him, had they abandoned him now? He hadn't really believed in them and now they didn't believe in him. His luck had run out, just like the blood draining down his body onto his face, in his nose and dripping from his head. He wasn't in heaven, and he was gripped with fear - perhaps he was in hell. Set against the backdrop of the Royal Commission into Sexual Abuse and the effects on the community of Ballarat, A Murder of Crows charts the rampage of a killer determined to set the record straight. Detective Jack Waters is called to a murder that has all of the hallmarks of a stage show, by an unknown killer who seems determined to rewrite history and create his own ending to a story that has been drawn out for too long.