Catch us the foxes / Nicola West.

By: West, Nicola, 1989- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cammeray, NSW : Simon and Schuster, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 379 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760857479Subject(s): Journalists -- New South Wales -- Fiction | Murder -- New South Wales -- Fiction | Women journalists -- Fiction | Best friends -- Crimes against -- Fiction | Fathers and daughters -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Signs and symbols -- Fiction | Secrecy -- Fiction | City and town life -- FictionGenre/Form: Australian fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction) DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: Some secrets you try to hide. Others you don't dare let out ... Twin Peaks meets The Dry in a deliciously dark and twisted tale that unravels a small Australian country town. Ambitious young journalist Marlowe 'Lo' Robertson would do anything to escape the suffocating confines of her small home town. While begrudgingly covering the annual show for the local newspaper, Lo is horrified to discover the mutilated corpse of her best friend - the town's reigning showgirl, Lily Williams.Seven strange symbols have been ruthlessly carved into Lily's back. But when Lo reports her grisly find to the town's police chief, he makes her promise not to tell anyone about the symbols. Lo obliges, though it's not like she has much of a choice - after all, he is also her father. When Lily's murder makes headlines around the country and the town is invaded by the media, Lo seizes the opportunity to track down the killer and make a name for herself by breaking the biggest story of her life. What Lo uncovers is that her sleepy home town has been harbouring a deadly secret, one so shocking that it will captivate the entire nation. Lo's story will change the course of her life forever, but in a way she could never have dreamed of.
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Some secrets you try to hide. Others you don't dare let out ... Twin Peaks meets The Dry in a deliciously dark and twisted tale that unravels a small Australian country town. Ambitious young journalist Marlowe 'Lo' Robertson would do anything to escape the suffocating confines of her small home town. While begrudgingly covering the annual show for the local newspaper, Lo is horrified to discover the mutilated corpse of her best friend - the town's reigning showgirl, Lily Williams.Seven strange symbols have been ruthlessly carved into Lily's back. But when Lo reports her grisly find to the town's police chief, he makes her promise not to tell anyone about the symbols. Lo obliges, though it's not like she has much of a choice - after all, he is also her father. When Lily's murder makes headlines around the country and the town is invaded by the media, Lo seizes the opportunity to track down the killer and make a name for herself by breaking the biggest story of her life. What Lo uncovers is that her sleepy home town has been harbouring a deadly secret, one so shocking that it will captivate the entire nation. Lo's story will change the course of her life forever, but in a way she could never have dreamed of.

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