The woman in the waves
Booker, Camille2025
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There's something sinister lurking in the waves... It's 1921 in Widow's Peak, a gloomy fishing village on the south coast of New South Wales. Nineteen-year-old Missy Green fills her days helping her fisherman father on his trawler, and spending time with her grandfather, the town's reclusive lighthouse keeper. It's a dreary existence. Everything in her sea salt-soaked life is upended, though, when she glimpses something in the water - a mermaid ominously staring at her. When Missy discovers the dead body of a woman washed up on shore, her disturbing hallucinations of the mermaid gather steam. Missy must navigate the treacherous waters of her secret-filled town while attempting not to drown in the recesses of her mind, and the eyes of a handsome detective...
Main title:
The woman in the waves / Camille Booker.
Author:
Booker, Camille, author
Work:
Imprint:
[Grange, QLD] : Hawkeye Publishing, 2025.
Collation:
322 pages ; 24 cm.
Awards:
Hawkeye Prize 2023Pipeline Unpublished Competition: Mystery/Thriller
ISBN:
9781923105362 (paperback)
Dewey class:
A823.4
Language:
English
Subject:
Detectives -- FictionFishing villages -- FictionHallucinations and illusions -- FictionMan-woman relationships -- FictionMermaids -- FictionMurder -- Investigation -- FictionPolice -- FictionSecrecy -- FictionTrawlers (Persons) -- FictionNew South Wales -- History -- 20th century -- FictionSouth Coast (N.S.W.) -- FictionAustralian fictionDetective and mystery fictionHistorical fiction
BRN:
173993