Dirt town / Hayley Scrivenor.
Publication details: Sydney, New South Wales : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2022.Description: 359 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781760987190
- 9781760988081
- A823.4 23/eng/20220526
- Winner 2023 ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year. Winner 2023 UK's CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for debut fiction. Winner 2023 Sisters in Crime Davitt Award for debut novel.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Crime | SCR | Available | 064000 |
"What do we owe the girl who isn't there?" -- Cover.
On a sweltering Friday afternoon in Durton, best friends Ronnie and Esther leave school together. Esther never makes it home. Ronnie's going to find her, she has a plan. Lewis will help. Their friend can't be gone, Ronnie won't believe it. Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels can believe it. She has seen what people are capable of. She knows more than anyone how, in a moment of weakness, a person can be driven to do something they never thought possible. Lewis can believe it too. But he can't reveal what he saw that afternoon at the creek without exposing his own secret. Five days later, Esther's buried body is discovered.
Winner 2023 ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year.
Winner 2023 UK's CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for debut fiction.
Winner 2023 Sisters in Crime Davitt Award for debut novel.