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YOUR LIBRARY
Wentworth Shire Libraries Issue 5 – 2021
Adult fiction
THE CARTOGRAPHER’S SECRET by Tea Cooper F/COOP
A young woman's quest to heal a family ri entangles her in one of Australia's greatest
historical puzzles when an intricately illustrated map offers a clue to the fate of a long‐
lost girl. 1880. The Hunter Valley. Evie Ludgrove loves to map the landscape around her
home ‐ hardly surprising since she grew up in the shadow of her father's obsession with
the great Australian explorer Dr Ludwig Leichhardt. So when an adver sement appears in
The Bulle n magazine offering a one thousand pound reward for proof of where
Leichhardt met his fate, Evie is determined to figure it out ‐ a er all, there are clues in
her father's papers and in the archives of The Royal Geographical Society. But when Evie
sets out to prove her theory she vanishes without a trace, leaving behind a mystery that
taints everyone's lives for 30 years.
THE NIGHT WHISTLER by Greg Woodland F/WOOD
Are you lonesome tonight... It's 1966. Hal and his li le brother, newly arrived in
Moorabool with their parents, are exploring the creek near their new home when they
find the body of a dog. Not just dead, but recently killed. Not just killed, but mu lated.
Constable Mick Goodenough, recently demoted from his city job as a detec ve, is also
new in town ‐ and one of his dogs has gone missing. He's experienced enough to know
what it means when someone tortures an animal to death ‐ it means they're prac sing.
So when Hal's mother starts ge ng anonymous calls ‐ a man whistling, then hanging up ‐
Goodenough, alone among the Moorabool cops, takes her seriously. The ques on is ‐
will that be enough to keep her safe?
THE MYSTERY WOMAN by Belinda Alexandra F/ALEX
In a small town, everyone is watching ... Secrets, scandal and betrayal in 1950s small
town Australia: the stunning new novel from bestseller Belinda Alexandra She had
thought Shipwreck Bay was simply a remote town where people were bored senseless
with their li le lives. Now she saw its virtuous facade hid something darker, more
sinister. Rebecca Wood is ready for a quiet life as the new postmistress of a sleepy
seaside town. Fleeing a scandal and haunted by her past, Rebecca is now determined to
make different choices. Soon she is being courted by the dashing local doctor and a
bright future beckons. But in such a small community, there is nowhere to hide from
prying eyes. And before long she is caught up in the dangerous mysteries that hide
behind Shipwreck Bay's respectable net curtains.Adult Fiction
SONG OF THE CROCODILE by Nardi Simpson F/SIMP
Darnmoor, The Gateway to Happiness. The sign taunts a fool into feeling some sense of
achievement, some kind of end‐ that you have reached a des na on in the very least. Yet
as the sign states, Darnmoor is merely a gateway, a waypoint on the road to where you
really want to be. Darnmoor is the home of the Billymil family, three genera ons who
have lived in this 'gateway town'. Race rela ons between Indigenous and se ler families
are fraught, though the rigid status quo is upheld through threats and so power rather
than the overt violence of yesteryear. As progress marches forwards, Darnmoor and its
surrounds undergo rapid social and environmental changes, but as some things change,
some stay exactly the same.
A TIME TO LIE by Simon Berthon F/BERT
A divisive prime minister. A long‐buried body. A plot to bring him down... The bigger the
secret the more dangerous it is to lie... On the morning of the Tory Party conference, the
bones of a young woman's hand are discovered in a London building site. Jed Fowkes,
Special Adviser at the Treasury, confronts Prime Minister Robin Sandford with a terrible
accusa on. He claims the hand belongs to someone they once knew well: a young
woman whom Sandford murdered years ago. With his career on the brink of ruin, the
Prime Minister's only hope is to enlist the unofficial help of MI5. A decision which leads
him into a new world of espionage, illegal trafficking and murder.
TELL ME LIES by J.P. Pomare F/POMA
Psychologist Margot Sco has a picture‐perfect life: a nice house in the suburbs, a
husband, two children and a successful career. On a warm spring morning Margot
approaches one of her clients on a busy train pla orm. He is looking down at his phone,
with his duffel bag in hand as the train approaches. That's when she slams into his back
and he falls in front of the train. Margot's clients all lie to her, but one lie cost her family
and freedom.
THE WIFE WHO KNEW TOO MUCH by Michele Campbell F/CAMP
Tabitha Girard had her heart broken years ago by Connor Ford. He was preppy and
handsome. She was a pool girl at his country club. Their affair should have been a
summer fling. But it meant everything to Tabitha. Years later, Connor comes back into
Tabitha's life‐older, richer, and desperately unhappy. He married for money, a wealthy,
neuro c, controlling woman whom he never loved. He has always loved Tabitha. When
Connor's wife Nina takes her own life, he's free. He can finally be with Tabitha. Nina's
home, Windswept, can be theirs. It seems to be a perfect ending to a fairy tale romance
that began so many years ago. But then, Tabitha finds a diary. "I'm wri ng this to raise
an alarm in the event of my un mely death," it begins. "If I die unexpectedly, it was foul
play, and Connor was behind it.Adult Fiction
THE WIFE UPSTAIRS by Rachel Hawkins F/HAWK
A girl looking for love... When Jane, a broke dog‐walker newly arrived in town, meets
Eddie Rochester, she can't believe her luck. Eddie is handsome, rich and lives alone in a
beau ful mansion since the tragic death of his beloved wife a year ago. A man who
seems perfect... Eddie can give Jane everything she's always wanted: stability,
acceptance, and a picture‐perfect life. A wife who just won't stay buried... But what Jane
doesn't know is that Eddie is keeping a secret ‐ a big secret. And when the truth comes
out, the consequences are far more deadly than anyone could ever have imagined...
SHELTER by Catherine Jinks F/JINK
Meg lives alone: a li le place in the bush outside town. A perfect place to hide. That’s
one of the reasons she offers to shelter Nerine, who’s escaping a violent ex. The other is
that Meg knows what it’s like to live with an abusive partner. Nerine is jumpy and her
two li le girls are frightened. It tells Meg all she needs to know where they’ve come
from, and she’s not all that surprised when Nerine asks her to get hold of a gun. But she
knows it’s unnecessary. They’re safe now. Then she starts to wonder about some li le
things. A disturbed flyscreen. A tune playing on her wind chimes. Has Nerine’s ex tracked
them down? Has Meg’s husband turned up to torment her some more? By the me she
finds out, it’ll be too late to do anything but run for her life.
SORROW AND BLISS by Meg Mason F/MASO
This novel is about a woman called Martha. She knows there is something wrong with
her but she doesn't know what it is. Her husband Patrick thinks she is fine. He says
everyone has something, the thing is just to keep going. By the me Martha finds out
what is wrong, it doesn't really ma er anymore. It is too late to get the only thing she
has ever wanted. Or maybe it will turn out that you can stop loving someone and start
again from nothing ‐ if you can find something else to want.
OUTLAW: THE STORY OF JOE FLICK by Greg Barron F/BARR
When anthropologist Robert Morris arrives at the old Doomadgee Mission, at Bayley
Point near Burketown in 1934, he's intent on learning local languages and customs. One
very old woman living there, he discovers, was originally from outback New South
Wales, and is something of an outcast amongst the Waanyi and Gangalidda locals. On
delving deeper, Morris discovers that the old woman was the 'wife' of a white stockman
for more than thirty years in the fron er days, and claims to be the mother of one of the
north's most notorious outlaws. Determined to record the facts of her son's crimes from
her perspec ve, he sits with her each a ernoon. This is the story she told ...Adult Fiction
SHADOW OF THE DRAGON by Marc Cameron F/CAME
When a high‐level mole infiltrates American Intelligence, President Jack Ryan dispatches
John Clark and the Campus team to track down a missing scien st who holds cri cal
aerospace and naval technology. A missing Chinese scien st, unexplained noises
emana ng from under the Arc c ice, and a possible mole in American intelligence are
just some of the problems that plague President Jack Ryan. Aboard an icebreaker in the
Arc c Ocean a sonar operator hears an unusual noise coming from the ocean floor. She
can't isolate it and chalks the event up to an anomaly in a newly installed system.
Meanwhile, opera ves with the Chinese Ministry of State Security are dealing with their
own mystery‐‐the disappearance of brilliant but eccentric scien st, Liu Wangshu.
SHUGGIE BAIN by Douglas Stuart F/STUA
Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, is a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run‐
down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and
sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is wai ng in the wings.
Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a
burden for him and his siblings. Agnes finds increasing solace in drink, and she drains
away all the family has to live on. Agnes's older children find their own ways to get a safe
distance from their mother, abandoning Shuggie to care for her as she swings between
alcoholic binges and sobriety. Shuggie is meanwhile struggling to somehow become the
normal boy he desperately longs to be, but everyone has realized that he is "no right," a
boy with a secret that all but him can see.
STOP AT NOTHING by Michael Ledwidge F/LEDW
When a Gulfstream jet goes down in the Bahamas carrying a fortune in cash and ill‐
go en diamonds, expat diving instructor Michael Gannon is the only person on the
scene. Assuming himself the beneficiary of a drug deal gone bad, Gannon thinks he's
home free with the sudden windfall un l he realizes he forgot to ask one simple
ques on. Who were the six dead men on the plane? Gannon soon learns the answer to
that fateful ques on as he is thrust into an increasingly complex and deadly game of cat
and mouse with a group of the world's most powerful and dangerous men who will stop
at nothing to catch him.
THE VALLEY OF LOST STORIES by Vanessa McCausland F/MACC
Four women and their children are invited to the beau ful but remote Capertee Valley,
west of the Blue Mountains. Once home to a thriving town, only an enigma c Art Deco
hotel remains ‐ and an unsolved mystery. In 1948, Clara Black walked into the night,
never to be seen again. As the valley beguiles these four friends, and haunts them in
equal measure, each has to confront secrets of her own: Nathalie, with a damaged
marriage; Emmie, yearning for another child; Pen, struggling as a single parent; and
Alexandra, hiding in the shadow of her famous husband. But as the story of what
happened seventy years earlier unravels, one of the women also vanishes into this
bewitching place, forcing devasta ng truths to the surface.Adult Fiction
KOKOMO by Victoria Hannan F/HANN
When Mina receives an urgent call from her best friend back in Melbourne, her world is
turned upside down. Her reclusive mother, Elaine, has le the house for the first me in
twelve years. Mina drops everything to fly home, only to discover that Elaine will not talk
about her sudden return to the world, nor why she's spent so much me hiding from it.
Their reunion leaves Mina raking through pieces of their painful past in a bid to uncover
the truth. Both tender and fierce, heartbreaking and funny, Kokomo is a story about how
secrets and love have the power to bring us together and tear us apart. But does he have
what it takes to seal the deal?
SUMMERWATER by Sarah Moss F/MOSS
Summerwater is a devasta ng story told over twenty‐four hours in the Sco sh
highlands, and a searing explora on of our capacity for both kinship and cruelty in these
divided mes. On the longest day of the summer, twelve people sit cooped up with their
families in a faded Sco sh cabin park. The endless rain leaves them with li le to do but
watch the other residents. A woman goes running up the Ben as if fleeing; a re red
couple reminisce about neighbours long since moved on; a teenage boy braves the dark
waters of the loch in his red kayak. Each person is wrapped in their own cares but
increasingly alert to the makeshi community around them.
OUR SHADOWS by Gail Jones F/JONE
Our Shadows tells the story of three genera ons of family living in Kalgoorlie, where gold
was discovered in 1893 by an Irish‐born prospector named Paddy Hannan, whose own
history weaves in and out of this beguiling novel. Sisters Nell and Frances were raised by
their grandparents and were once closely bound by reading and fantasy. Now they live in
Sydney and are estranged. Each in her own way struggles with the loss of their parents.
Li le by li le the sisters grow to understand the imagina ve force of the past and the
legacy of their shared orphanhood. Then Frances decides to make a journey home to the
goldfields to explore what lies hidden and unspoken in their lives, in the shadowy tunnels
of the past.
THE LOST BOYS by Faye Kellerman F/KELL
When Bertram Telemann, a developmentally disabled man, goes missing from a local
diner near Greenbury, the en re community of the small upstate New York town
volunteers to search the surrounding woods in hopes of finding him. High func oning
and independent, Bertram had been on a field trip with the staff and fellow residents of
the Loving Care Home when he vanished. When no trace of the man is found, the
disappearance quickly becomes an official missing persons case and is assigned to
detec ves Peter Decker and his partner Tyler McAdams. As their inves ga on deepens,
the seasoned Decker becomes convinced that Bertram hadn’t lost his way, but had le
with someone he knew.Adult Fiction
SNOWY MOUNTAIN DAUGHTER by Alissa Callen F/CALL
Peony flower farmer Clancy Parker was born and bred in the Australian high country.
Small‐town Bundilla is the only place she will ever truly belong, even if staying means
remaining alone. The man she'd loved is long gone and single men are as rare as a
summer snowfall. As soon as he could, street ar st Heath MacBride escaped his
complicated family and traded mountain peaks for city concrete. Now a commission to
paint a mural on Bundilla's water tower brings him home. It doesn't ma er how long
he's been away, the animosity of his ca leman father hasn't waned. When life again
backs him into a corner, will he have no choice but to leave or will he and Clancy have
the second chance they'd each thought would forever remain out of reach?
THE PRICE OF TWO SPARROWS by Christy Collins F/COLL
Heico is an ornithologist figh ng a losing ba le to protect the birds in his beachside
suburb. When a journalist asks for comment on a planned development, Heico
exaggerates his reports on how many migratory birds use the site. Soon it is revealed
that the proposed building is a mosque, and he finds himself embroiled in community
resistance to the project. S ll, he refuses to back down. As the delayed mosque project
becomes a focal point for growing Islamophobia, Heico must confront his own ghosts,
and the prejudices he insists he doesn't have.
THE MASK FALLING by Samantha Shannon F/SHAN
Paige Mahoney has eluded death again. Snatched from the jaws of cap vity and
consigned to a safe house in the Scion Citadel of Paris, she finds herself caught between
those fac ons that seek Scion's downfall and those who would kill to protect the
Rephaim's puppet empire. The mysterious Domino Programme has plans for Paige, but
she has ambi ons of her own in this new citadel. With Arcturus Mesarthim ‐ her former
enemy ‐ at her side, she embarks on an adventure that will lead her from the catacombs
of Paris to the gli ering hallways of Versailles.
THE PROPHETS by Robert Jones, JR. F/JONE
The Halifax planta on is known as Empty by the slaves who work it under the pi less
gaze of its overseers and its owner, Massa Paul. Two young enslaved men, Samuel and
Isaiah dwell among the animals they keep in the barn, helping out in the fields when
their day is done. But the barn is their haven, a space of radiance and love ‐ away from
the blistering sun and the cruelty of the toubabs ‐ where they can be alone together.
But, Amos ‐ a fellow slave ‐ has begun to direct suspicion towards the two men and their
refusal to bend. Their flickering glances, unspoken words and wilful inten on, revealing
a truth that threatens to rock the stability of the planta on. And preaching the words of
Massa Paul's gospel, he betrays them. The culmina ng pages of The Prophets summon a
choral voice of those who have suffered in silence, with blistering humanity, as the day
of reckoning arrives at the Halifax planta on.WENTWORTH SHIRE LIBRARY
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