Antoinette Conway

Antoinette Conway is one of the original detectives who investigated Chris’ murder. Moran says that his mother would have described Conway as being “a bit rough” (17). Conway is a good detective who takes her job seriously. She is haunted by the things she missed in the first investigation. After Moran stays in her office even after he has turned the card over to her, she asks him if he would like to join her on her trip to St. Kilda’s.

Conway believes that people do not want to work with her because she was unable to make an arrest in her first murder case, a case the other detectives believed should have been easy. Mackey tells Moran that the other men in Conway’s department do not like her because she does not make attempts to get along with the others. He describes a situation in...