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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Second Sight
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'A fugitive in the present. A runaway in the past.

'Eliza Carmody returns home to the country to work on the biggest legal case of her career. The only problem is this time she’s on the ‘wrong side’ – defending a large corporation against a bushfire class action by her hometown of Kinsale.

'On her first day back Eliza witnesses an old friend, Luke Tyrell, commit an act of lethal violence. As the police investigate that crime and hunt for Luke they uncover bones at The Castle, a historic homestead in the district. Eliza is convinced that they belong to someone from her past.

'As Eliza becomes more and more entangled in the investigation, she is pulled back into her memories of youthful friendships and begins to question everyone she knows … and everything she once thought was true.' (Production summary)

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Notes

  • Dedication : 'For my siblings Ciara, Sinead, Aisling and Aidan for the love and the laughter'
  • Epigraph : 'He lies like an eyewitness.' - Russian proverb

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Cammeray, Cremorne - Mosman - Northbridge area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Simon and Schuster Australia , 2018 .
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      Extent: 368p.
      Note/s:
      • Published July 2018

      ISBN: 9781925596892
    • Cammeray, Cremorne - Mosman - Northbridge area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Simon and Schuster Australia , 2020 .
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      Extent: 271p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 January 2020.
      ISBN: 9781760854713 (pbk)
    • Richmond, East Melbourne - Richmond area, Melbourne, Victoria,: Hardie Grant Books , 2024 .
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      Extent: 288p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 3 January 2024
      ISBN: 9781761152429

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Works about this Work

Familiar Trope Makes Way for a Gripping Thriller Sue Green , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 12 January 2019; (p. 18)

— Review of Second Sight Aoife Clifford , 2018 single work novel

'It’s a familiar trope: local girl made good returns to the town she escaped 20 years earlier and vowed not to revisit. Eliza Carmody, junior partner in a city law firm, is reluctantly back in beachside Kinsale.'  (Introduction)

Familiar Trope Makes Way for a Gripping Thriller Sue Green , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 12 January 2019; (p. 18)

— Review of Second Sight Aoife Clifford , 2018 single work novel

'It’s a familiar trope: local girl made good returns to the town she escaped 20 years earlier and vowed not to revisit. Eliza Carmody, junior partner in a city law firm, is reluctantly back in beachside Kinsale.'  (Introduction)

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