The Snake In Sydney

When a young woman is rushed to a Sydney hospital after being bitten by an unidentified snake, she's lucky to be treated by Annika Niebuhr, a doctor whose fascination with snakes began with the Norse myths of her Danish childhood and was fuelled by the Australian aborigine who taught her how to catch them. Annika recognises the bite of a taipan - the world's most poisonous snake. But not one native to Sydney: she realises it can only have been planted.

Inadvertently, or so she believes, Annika is drawn into an investigation that becomes increasingly outlandish. A miraculous recovery, a clairvoyant schizophrenic, the apparent suicide of a close friend, an attempt on her own and her lover's lives - none makes sense to a rational medic. Yet for all her scientist's detachment, Annika begins to realise that she must use her heart, as well as her intuition and imagination, if she's to survive.