PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- When Nina doesn’t return home from a weekend away with her boyfriend, her mother and family are both annoyed and increasingly concerned. Simon had pressured her into skipping out on her responsibilities to her mother's business, and unbeknownst to her friends or family, Nina only reluctantly agreed to go away to his family's Vermont cabin; she is realising that her golden boyfriend is not the young man everyone thinks he is. As her mother Leeanne becomes more and more frantic, and disbelieving of the story Simon is telling, her behaviour borders on criminal. Simon's family are rich and used to being accommodated, so they start to play dirty themselves, to protect their only son. But is he telling the truth, and do they believe his stories, or are they more worried about their reputation than about the missing girl? A gripping and intense mystery (and it has an ending that will make you think...) Lindy
Dervla McTiernan's debut novel, The Ruin, was a critically acclaimed international bestseller published around the world. The Ruin won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, the Davitt Award for Best Adult Fiction and the Barry Award for Best Original Paperback, and was shortlisted for numerous other awards. It was on the Amazon US Best Book of the Year list in 2018 and screen rights were snapped up by Hopscotch Features. Dervla's second book, The Scholar, debuted into the Nielsen Bookscan Top 5 on release in 2019, and her third, The Good Turn, went straight to no.1, confirming her place as one of Australia's best crime writers. Born in County Cork, Ireland, to a family of seven, Dervla practised as a corporate lawyer for twelve years. Following the global financial crisis, she moved with her family to Western Australia, where she now lives with her husband and two children. An avid fan of crime and detective novels from childhood, Dervla now writes full time.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- When Nina doesn’t return home from a weekend away with her boyfriend, her mother and family are both annoyed and increasingly concerned. Simon had pressured her into skipping out on her responsibilities to her mother's business, and unbeknownst to her friends or family, Nina only reluctantly agreed to go away to his family's Vermont cabin; she is realising that her golden boyfriend is not the young man everyone thinks he is. As her mother Leeanne becomes more and more frantic, and disbelieving of the story Simon is telling, her behaviour borders on criminal. Simon's family are rich and used to being accommodated, so they start to play dirty themselves, to protect their only son. But is he telling the truth, and do they believe his stories, or are they more worried about their reputation than about the missing girl? A gripping and intense mystery (and it has an ending that will make you think...) Lindy
