It only takes one spark
It's the biggest case of her career and Eliza Carmody is on the 'wrong' side. She is defending a large corporation that people believe was responsible for the devastating bushfire that nearly destroyed her hometown. When she returns to Kinsale, a place she thought she'd left forever, Eliza witnesses a crime that sends her on a dangerous quest to uncover the mysteries of her childhood that the rest of the town seems happy to ignore.
When police discover human bones at 'The Castle', a historic homestead, Eliza becomes convinced that the answer lies in the events on a New Year's Eve years ago, the night her friend Grace disappeared forever.
With the town still reeling from the fire's aftermath, powerful local families are determined to protect young men from the consequences of their actions. Eliza begins to suspect that no one – even the most trustworthy – is telling the truth.
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Release date
January 17, 2024 -
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781761152436
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- ISBN: 9781761152436
- File size: 2939 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Starred review from May 13, 2019
This brilliantly crafted, slow-burn crime novel from Australian Clifford (All These Perfect Strangers) slides with delicious subtlety from a story that begins in small-town reminiscences and regrets, moves into amateur investigation blended with personal history and deep secrets, and then takes a plunge into driving thriller territory. Lawyer Eliza Carmody knows she will get little sympathy in her hometown of Kinsale, Australia, because she’s there not only to visit her pregnant best friend, Amy Liu, and her father, Mick Carmody, who’s unresponsive in nursing care after a car accident, but also to develop her case on behalf of Colcart Electric in a class action suit by Kinsale’s residents over a devastating and fatal bushfire. Witnessing a violent fight involving Luke Tyrell, whom she remembers from childhood, leads her to revisit the events of New Year’s Eve 1996, during which her other best friend, Grace Hedland, disappeared. The author tugs hard at universal human emotions as she explores themes of grief and the unreliability of memory. Readers will view everyone Eliza encounters with a blend of suspicion and sympathy. Clifford is definitely a writer to watch. Agent: Clare Forster, Curtis Brown.
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