title: The Waterlow Killings: A Portrait of a Family Tragedy
author: Pamela Burton
description: <b>Pamela Burton</b> is a formerlawyer and the founder of herown law firm in Canberra. She is currently a full-time writer and a part-time ACT mental health official visitor. She is the author of<i>From Moree to Mabo</i>.
zlib_text: Dedication
   To my editor, Holly Atkinson, for her constant enthusiasm for my work and for her infinite patience when it came to this
  particular book.
  
  Chapter One
  Chase nearly stumbled into the chilly water of Clark Creek when he came up on the battle. Two men and one woman fought
  by a couple of narrow waterfalls. The water sparkled in the late afternoon light, the surrounding forest a wild, dead brown and
  gray—in sharp contrast to the gruesome streaks of bright red blood on the boulders. These people were the first humans outside
  of his brother he’d seen in nearly a year.
  He could hardly take his eyes off the woman. Frowning, he noted the blood streaking her jaw, the way her lip was puffing up
  before his eyes. Her white blouse, ripped down one side, clung wetly to her soaked body, but swung out to reveal part of one
  full breast when she suddenly whipped into movement.
  Wet black hair slapped her cheeks as she feinted to the left then right of the first man. She spun around, ducked and 