Description: 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.
Brief description: Aoife Clifford is a renowned author whose books have been long-listed for both the Australian Industry General Fiction Book of the Year and the Voss Literary Prize. She has won two premier short-story prizes for crime fiction in Australia and has been shortlisted for the UK Crime Association's Debut Dagger. Born in London of Irish parents, she grew up in New South Wales and now lives in Melbourne.