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Small town secrets unravel in rural Australia.

If you relish being plunged into tight-knit communities fraught with mystery, "Dirt Town" is an excellent pick. It wraps you in the tension and suspicion that only a small, remote area can cultivate when a child goes missing. Scrivenor crafts a thick air of mystery with a touch of grittiness that fans of Harper and Whitaker will recognize and appreciate. It's a compelling dive into the darker side of rural idylls.

  • Barry Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2023)
  • CWA New Blood Dagger (2023)
  • Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Mystery (2023)
  • Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for General Fiction and Nominee for Matt Richell Award (2023)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Dirt Town

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ISBN: 9781529080278
Authors: Hayley Scrivenor
Publisher: PAN MACMILLAN
Date of Publication: 2022-06-18
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Mystery/Crime/Thriller, Contemporary
Related Topics: Crime, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery
Goodreads rating: 3.82
(rated by 15467 readers)

Description

When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Australia, the community is thrown into a maelstrom of suspicion and grief. As Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels arrives in town during the hottest spring in decades and begins her investigation, Esther’s tenacious best friend, Ronnie, is determined to find Esther and bring her home. When schoolfriend Lewis tells Ronnie that he saw Esther with a strange man at the creek the afternoon she went missing, Ronnie feels she is one step closer to finding her. But why is Lewis refusing to speak to the police? And who else is lying about how much they know about what has happened to Esther? Punctuated by a Greek chorus, which gives voice to the remaining children of the small, dying town, this novel explores the ties that bind, what we try and leave behind us, and what we can never outrun, while never losing sight of the question of what happened to Esther, and what her loss does to a whole town. In Hayley Scrivenor's Dirt Creek, a small-town debut mystery described as The Dry meets Everything I Never Told You, a girl goes missing and a community falls apart and comes together.
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Small town secrets unravel in rural Australia.

If you relish being plunged into tight-knit communities fraught with mystery, "Dirt Town" is an excellent pick. It wraps you in the tension and suspicion that only a small, remote area can cultivate when a child goes missing. Scrivenor crafts a thick air of mystery with a touch of grittiness that fans of Harper and Whitaker will recognize and appreciate. It's a compelling dive into the darker side of rural idylls.

  • Barry Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2023)
  • CWA New Blood Dagger (2023)
  • Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Mystery (2023)
  • Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for General Fiction and Nominee for Matt Richell Award (2023)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.