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Aug 2022, 336 pages
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May 2023, 336 pages
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Dirt Creek is Hayley Scrivenor's debut novel. An earlier version of this mystery won the Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award and made the shortlist for the Penguin Literary Prize. Our First Impressions reviewers gave the book an average rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars.
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Dirt Creek is set in the small town of Durton, Australia. Its adult inhabitants have known each other since they were children. They remember each misdeed and past transgressions are not forgiven. These adults have children they profess to love but often their parenting is inadequate or is physically or verbally abusive. The book is written in varying points of view alternating between the adults and their children…A girl goes missing and Detective Michaels and her partner are assigned to find her. The search for Esther reveals a hidden side of the past of the adults. The ...
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