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Who's lying about
what happened at Dirt Creek?
“Blends a taut psychological thriller with a
suspenseful police procedural…Fans of Liane Moriarty and Jane Harper won’t want
to miss this page-turner.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“A novel of sharp-edged tempers, accidents
waiting to happen and dark inheritances.” —New York Times Book Review
When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way
home from school in a small town in rural Australia, the community is thrown
into a maelstrom of suspicion and grief. As Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels
arrives in town during the hottest spring in decades and begins her
investigation, Esther’s tenacious best friend, Ronnie, is determined to find
Esther and bring her home.
When schoolfriend Lewis tells Ronnie that he saw
Esther with a strange man at the creek the afternoon she went missing, Ronnie
feels she is one step closer to finding her. But why is Lewis refusing to speak
to the police? And who else is lying about how much they know about what has
happened to Esther?
Punctuated by a Greek chorus, which gives voice to
the remaining children of the small, dying town, this novel explores the ties
that bind, what we try and leave behind us, and what we can never outrun, while
never losing sight of the question of what happened to Esther, and what her
loss does to a whole town.
In Hayley Scrivenor's Dirt Creek, a small-town debut mystery described as The Dry meets Everything I Never Told You, a girl goes missing and a community falls apart
and comes together.
Hayley Scrivenor's "stunning debut" (starred Publishers Weekly) DIRT CREEK "blends a taut psychological thriller with a suspenseful police procedural" (starred PW) to create "a beautifully written character study of small town Australia and what happens to it as the town is torn apart by a vanished child" (Deadly Pleasures).
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