Cirrus@Austlit

'Adam couldn't wait... his Uncle Allan was coming to watch his cricket game this afternoon; Adam's father was always too busy to get there. Uncle Allan believed Adam and his best friend, Nate, would one day be chosen for the State side if they kept practicing... Adam's bowling was really improving. Adam didn't have an Uncle Allan.' (Publication summary)

'Backpacker, Soleil 'Sunny' Reyer is gone. Tanned, glowing and star of the Missing poster; no one thought fruit-picking could be deadly.

'Journalist, Jessica Steyn was the last person to give Sunny a lift. Assigned the biggest story in her career, Jessica is on the job. Dig, dig, dig ... until she buries herself.

'The cold case file never leaves his desk in the same way that Detective Nick Clarkson is stuck in Strand Harbour fifteen years after Sunny disappeared. Less hair, marriage over, no sign of Sunny.

'Author Coen Watson's people are water people; his trust in it is marrow-deep - he's counting on Strand Harbour to cure his writer's block. Unpacking, he forces open a drawer corroded by salt air to find a faded Missing poster for Soleil Reyer. The author begins picking at old wounds.'(Publication summary)

'Joe was their friend; the man they spoke to through the wire fence of the Lunatic Asylum, and 10-year-old best friends, Nathan Walker and Adam Murphy, knew he wasn't insane. Then, one day, Joe was gone.

'Now hitting their thirties--jobs and divorces in their wake--ex-cop, current P.I. Nate and psychiatrist Adam decide to share office space and a receptionist. That's when the letter arrives advising them that they have received 'Expectations'. A quaint, old-fashioned bequest delivered by a solicitor which amounts to an inheritance for two boys - left by Joseph O'Connell, a missing-believed-deceased former patient at the River Park Lunatic Asylum.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.