Vanishing Falls

von Poppy Gee

432 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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One of CrimeReads Most Anticipated Books of the Year!"Thisliterary thriller paints as vivid a landscape as any book coming out thissummer...Gee creates a lush, tantalizing world thatreaders will want to travel into deeper and deeper."—CrimeReadsCeliaLily is rich, beautiful, and admired. She’s also missing. And the search forthe glamorous socialite is about to expose all the dark, dirty secrets ofVanishing Falls…Deepwithin the lush Tasmanian rainforest is the remote town of Vanishing Falls, aplace with a storied past. The town’s showpiece, built in the 1800s, is its CalendarHouse—currently occupied by Jack Lily, a prominent art collector and landowner;his wife, Celia; and their four daughters. The elaborate, eccentricallydesigned mansion houses one masterpiece and 52 rooms—and Celia Lily isn’t inany of them. She has vanished without a trace.…JoelleSmithton knows that a few folks in Vanishing Falls believe that she’ssimple-minded. It’s true that Joelle’s brain works a little differently—alegacy of shocking childhood trauma. But Joelle sees far more than most peoplerealize, and remembers details that others cast away. For instance, she knowsthat Celia’s husband, Jack, has connections to unsavory local characters whomhe’s desperate to keep hidden. He’s not the only one in town with something toconceal. Even Joelle’s own husband, Brian, a butcher, is acting suspiciously.While the police flounder, unable to find Celia, Joelle is gradually parsingthe truth from the gossip she hears and from the simple gestures and statementsthat can unwittingly reveal so much.   Justas the water from the falls disappears into the ground, gushing away throughsubterranean creeks, the secrets in Vanishing Falls are pulsing through thetown, about to converge. And when they do, Joelle must summon the courage toreveal what really happened to Celia, even if it means exposing her own past…

• Themen: Belletristik Erzählerische Themen, Stoffe, Motive Seelenleben
• ISBN: 9780062978493
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.08.2020
• Größe: 204 x 139 mm
• Verlag: HarperCollins