Second sight / Aoife Clifford.

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Title:

Second sight / Aoife Clifford.

Author:

Clifford, Aoife

ISBN:

9781643130767

Edition:

First Pegasus Books cloth edition

Physical Description:

264 pages ; 24 cm

Abstract:

Eliza Carmody returns home to the country to work on the biggest law case of her career. The only problem is this time she's on the 'wrong side'--defending a large corporation against a bushfire class action by her hometown of Kinsale. On her first day back Eliza witnesses an old friend, Luke Tyrell, commit an act of lethal violence. As the police investigate that crime and hunt for Luke they uncover bones at The Castle, a historic homestead in the district. Eliza is convinced that they belong to someone from her past. As Eliza becomes more and more entangled in the investigation, she is pulled back into her memories of youthful friendships and begins to question everyone she knows...and everything she once thought was true.

Subject Term:

Women lawyers -- Fiction.

Wildfires -- Fiction.

Missing persons -- Fiction.

Secrecy -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Australia -- Fiction.

Genre:

Suspense fiction.

Detective and mystery stories.

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Summary

When Eliza Carmody returns to her small hometown after a destructive wildfire, she witnesses a crime that draws her back into the mysteries of a childhood she thought she'd left behind for good.

When the biggest legal case of her career brings Eliza Carmody back to Kinsale, the hometown she thought she had left forever, she witnesses an old friend commit a crime that sends her on a dangerous quest to uncover the mysteries of her childhood that the rest of the town seems willing to ignore.

With her friend on the run and the police investigating the bones of an unidentified dead body at a historic homestead near town, Eliza becomes convinced that the truth lies in her memories of the New Year's Eve years ago when her friend Grace disappeared from Kinsale forever.

While Eliza desperately explores the connections between the crimes of the present and those of the past, she begins to suspect that no one -- even her own family -- is telling the truth.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

This brilliantly crafted, slow-burn crime novel from Australian Clifford (All These Perfect Strangers) slides with delicious subtlety from a story that begins in small-town reminiscences and regrets, moves into amateur investigation blended with personal history and deep secrets, and then takes a plunge into driving thriller territory. Lawyer Eliza Carmody knows she will get little sympathy in her hometown of Kinsale, Australia, because she's there not only to visit her pregnant best friend, Amy Liu, and her father, Mick Carmody, who's unresponsive in nursing care after a car accident, but also to develop her case on behalf of Colcart Electric in a class action suit by Kinsale's residents over a devastating and fatal bushfire. Witnessing a violent fight involving Luke Tyrell, whom she remembers from childhood, leads her to revisit the events of New Year's Eve 1996, during which her other best friend, Grace Hedland, disappeared. The author tugs hard at universal human emotions as she explores themes of grief and the unreliability of memory. Readers will view everyone Eliza encounters with a blend of suspicion and sympathy. Clifford is definitely a writer to watch. Agent: Clare Forster, Curtis Brown. (July) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

In her American debut, Clifford takes us to Australia, the likeliest place on the planet to accidentally hit a kangaroo with a car. And that is just what happens to Tess Carmody in her father's prized Mustang. That was 20 years ago, when she and her sister, Eliza, were teenagers. At around the same time, one of Eliza's friends disappeared without a trace after an alcohol-and-hormone-fueled beach party. When Eliza, now a successful corporate attorney, returns to her hometown, she witnesses a brutal crime perpetrated by someone who was also at that party, and her interactions with other old friends lead her to question the veracity of her memories. Told through two time lines, first-person present and third-person past, this book could be called Third Sight because Eliza's second set of conclusions gets turned around in a surprise finish. Some readers might be baffled by the complexity, or grow impatient with the teen angst, but fans of Jane Harper's mysteries, also set Down Under in creepily threatening small towns, will feel right at home.--Jane Murphy Copyright 2019 Booklist