![]() With its complicated history, fascinating people and dramatic beauty, Tasmania is an intriguing muse," Poppy says. "I like taking an exquisitely beautiful setting - a village in a pristine rainforest or a sleepy seaside holiday town - and flipping it, revealing the dark parts of a place and the people who live there. Both novels are set in Tasmania, Australia, where Poppy grew up. Poppy Gee is the author of literary crime novels BAY OF FIRES and VANISHING FALLS. And when they do, Joelle must summon the courage to reveal what really happened to Celia, even if it means exposing her own past… Just as the water from the falls disappears into the ground, gushing away through subterranean creeks, the secrets in Vanishing Falls are pulsing through the town, about to converge. While the police flounder, unable to find Celia, Joelle is gradually parsing the truth from the gossip she hears and from the simple gestures and statements that can unwittingly reveal so much. Even Joelle’s own husband, Brian, a butcher, is acting suspiciously. He’s not the only one in town with something to conceal. For instance, she knows that Celia’s husband, Jack, has connections to unsavory local characters whom he’s desperate to keep hidden. But Joelle sees far more than most people realize, and remembers details that others cast away. It’s true that Joelle’s brain works a little differently-a legacy of shocking childhood trauma. She has vanished without a trace.… Joelle Smithton knows that a few folks in Vanishing Falls believe that she’s simple-minded. ![]() ![]() The elaborate, eccentrically designed mansion houses one masterpiece and 52 rooms-and Celia Lily isn’t in any of them. ![]() The town’s showpiece, built in the 1800s, is its Calendar House-currently occupied by Jack Lily, a prominent art collector and landowner his wife, Celia and their four daughters. And the search for the glamorous socialite is about to expose all the dark, dirty secrets of Vanishing Falls… Deep within the lush Tasmanian rainforest is the remote town of Vanishing Falls, a place with a storied past. One of CrimeReads Most Anticipated Books of the Year! "This literary thriller paints as vivid a landscape as any book coming out this summer.Gee creates a lush, tantalizing world that readers will want to travel into deeper and deeper."-CrimeReads Celia Lily is rich, beautiful, and admired. ![]()
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