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A review by tasmanian_bibliophile
The Liars by Petronella McGovern
4.0
‘They didn’t talk about the cave in Wreck Point National Park. No-one did.’
The small Australian town of Kinton Bay is shocked when fifteen-year-old Siena Britton finds a human skull in the national park. Siena believes that it is a skull from the town’s violent colonial past and wastes no time posting a video which hits the news headlines. Her parents, Meri and Rollo, are less certain. They remember a classmate went missing after a party in 1998. Meri, concerned to protect her children, has a location application on their phones. This gives Meri a sense of security, but it may not protect either Siena or her twin brother Taj.
As the past makes its way into the present, the local police revisit several missing person cases. Further grim discoveries have the town on edge: have multiple murders been committed? And by whom?
Ms McGovern’s latest novel takes us into a community at war with itself over differing views of history and exposes some toxic secrets. Siena’s desire to expose tragic events of the past puts both her and her family in danger.
Contemporary Australian crime fiction with a twist. I could not put it down. Highly recommended. My thanks to Better Reading Preview for an advance reading copy.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
The small Australian town of Kinton Bay is shocked when fifteen-year-old Siena Britton finds a human skull in the national park. Siena believes that it is a skull from the town’s violent colonial past and wastes no time posting a video which hits the news headlines. Her parents, Meri and Rollo, are less certain. They remember a classmate went missing after a party in 1998. Meri, concerned to protect her children, has a location application on their phones. This gives Meri a sense of security, but it may not protect either Siena or her twin brother Taj.
As the past makes its way into the present, the local police revisit several missing person cases. Further grim discoveries have the town on edge: have multiple murders been committed? And by whom?
Ms McGovern’s latest novel takes us into a community at war with itself over differing views of history and exposes some toxic secrets. Siena’s desire to expose tragic events of the past puts both her and her family in danger.
Contemporary Australian crime fiction with a twist. I could not put it down. Highly recommended. My thanks to Better Reading Preview for an advance reading copy.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith