Stone Town by Margaret Hickey

When three teens find the dead body of Aidan Sleeth, Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Ariti is assigned the case. Sleeth was a resident of the rural community of Stone Town in South Australia and Mark begins by interviewing the locals and looking into Sleeth's life. Meanwhile, other police are working on the case of missing Detective Sergeant Natalie Whitsed, who was deep into surveillance of mobster Tony Scoopelliti's wife, Charlene. Could the two cases be connected? In her second Mark Ariti mystery, author Hickey provides a great sense of place for small town Australia and a very likable main character. Why hasn't an American publisher picked this series up yet?