WHERE THE TIDE LIED
What the water couldn’t take, the town tried to bury
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About the author
Donna Osborne is an Australian author whose writing explores grief, justice, survival, and the quiet violences people learn to live around. Her stories are grounded in place, shaped by ordinary lives under pressure, and drawn to the mome…
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- ISBN
- 978-1-7640524-5-0
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 660
- Genres
- Crime
Description
At dawn on West Beach, a dog walker finds a girl in the tide line.Sixteen-year-old Isla Merrick is barely alive. She has no phone, no bag, no memory she can give police, and the sea has already begun washing away the evidence.
For Senior Constable Mark Dwyer, the case should be impossible:
no clear scene, no reliable witness, no suspect, and a town already desperate to believe the danger has passed.
But Isla’s silence is not the only thing standing in the way. Because along the North-West Coast, women remember.
They remember the cars that slowed beside them. The men who were too helpful. The warnings they swallowed because no one wanted to hear them. The small moments they were told were probably nothing.
As Dwyer and Sergeant Fiona Baird trace a path through missing evidence, quiet lies and old fear, the investigation begins to expose something larger than one brutal
attack. Someone has been hiding in plain sight. Someone who understands how easily a town can look away.
And this time, the tide has brought one girl back.
It may be the only chance to stop him.
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