

in this propulsive page turning thriller the dark secrets of a small town in tasmania are unraveled as a well known figure goes missing without a trace perfect for fans of eleanor oliphant and ruth ware vanishing falls deep in the tasmanian rainforest is a remote small town with a storied past the town s showpiece built in the 1800s is its calendar house an eccentric lavish mansion these days the house is occupied by jack lily a prominent art collector and landowner and his wife celia or at least it was for the pretty popular and kind celia has suddenly disappeared joelle smithton knows that a few folks in vanishing falls believe that she s stupid it s true that joelle s brain works a little differently a legacy of shocking childhood trauma but joelle sees far more than most people realize and remembers details that others cast away for instance she knows that celia s husband jack has connections to unsavory local characters whom he s desperate to keep hidden he s not the only one in town with something to conceal even joelle s own husband brian a butcher is acting suspiciously while the police flounder unable to find celia s body joelle is gradually parsing the truth from the gossip she hears and from the simple gestures and statements that can unwittingly reveal so much 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 and when they do joelle must summon the courage to reveal what really happened to celia even if it means exposing her own past with one of the most memorable heroines in fiction vanishing falls captivates from its first page to the shocking electrifying ending
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