- Title:
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The Drowning Girls (MP3)
- Written by:
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Veronica Lando
- Read by:
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Dominic Gruenewald
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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9 hours 5 minutes
- MP3 size:
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396 MB
- Published:
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July 05 2023
- Available Date:
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July 05 2023
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781460746769
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Crime & Thriller; Mystery
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/HarperCollins audio
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Price
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Award winning author
Australian author
A darkly absorbing mystery set in a small fishing town from the winner of the 2021 Banjo Prize.
Nate can't believe he's dragged himself up to this backwater town. Port Flinders would have fallen off the map years ago, except for one thing. Tourists flock to its mangrove-lined shores for the annual Drowning Girl festival: sacrifice a girl at sea, and the fishing hauls that keep the town afloat will prosper; don't and the whole town will sink. But it's just a legend, a gimmick. Everybody knows that.
As fireworks light up the night sky, a woman's body is pulled from the inky waters of the gulf. Shock waves threaten to tear Port Flinders apart when she's identified as Kelsey Webb, a local teenager thought dead for the past 25 years.
As Nate tries to find the truth about what happened to Kelsey, he uncovers a string of deadly accidents over the decades. All women. All drowned. And always during the festival.
In his search for answers, the legend of The Drowning Girl begins to take hold of Nate, weaving its way into his head and threatening to pull him under, and he begins to question which sacrifices are truly necessary.
'A fantastic new voice in Australian fiction.'
The Australian
'Eerie, atmospheric and addictive, The Drowning Girls shimmers with gothic tension'
Candice Fox, author of Hades
'Lando grips and holds the reader underwater - the characters' nightmares of the drowning girl are palpable and the story is claustrophobic, despite the vast ocean nearby. This novel is for readers who love to delve into Sarah Bailey or Chris Hammer's mysterious, complicated histories, or swelter in Candice Fox's oppressive Queensland heat.'
Books+Publishing
'The Drowning Girls weaves superstition, small-town tensions and past deeds into a close, suffocating tale infused with the heat and humidity of far north Queensland.'
Maryrose Cuskelly, author of The Cane