The slipping place / Joanna Baker.
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TextPublisher: Edgecliff, NSW : Impact Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 297 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781925384574; 1925384578Subject(s): Mothers and sons -- Fiction | Parent and adult child -- Fiction | Missing persons -- Fiction | Artists -- Fiction | Secrecy -- Fiction | Hobart (Tas.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Australian fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction) | Detective and mystery fiction. | Domestic fiction. Summary: Veronica Cruickshank’s youngest child Roland is her idealistic one – a fighter of lost causes, and the one that always needs protecting, particularly from himself. So when she hears he is back in Hobart helping an old school friend, Treen McShane, Veronica tries to track him down – but all she finds are second hand reports, whispers of horrific abuse, stories of a small child being hurt. Then Roland sends Veronica a text message, asking her to go to the Slipping Place, high on Mount Wellington, a picnic spot known only to their family. Here she discovers Treen’s frozen body. Knowing Roland will be suspected of leaving Treen to die, Veronica resolves to find out what really happened. But as long-buried truths slowly surface, she uncovers a secret that brings the violence closer to home than she could have ever imagined.--Provided by publisher.
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Veronica Cruickshank’s youngest child Roland is her idealistic one – a fighter of lost causes, and the one that always needs protecting, particularly from himself. So when she hears he is back in Hobart helping an old school friend, Treen McShane, Veronica tries to track him down – but all she finds are second hand reports, whispers of horrific abuse, stories of a small child being hurt. Then Roland sends Veronica a text message, asking her to go to the Slipping Place, high on Mount Wellington, a picnic spot known only to their family. Here she discovers Treen’s frozen body. Knowing Roland will be suspected of leaving Treen to die, Veronica resolves to find out what really happened. But as long-buried truths slowly surface, she uncovers a secret that brings the violence closer to home than she could have ever imagined.--Provided by publisher.
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