y separately published work icon Lily O'Hara Mysteries series - author   novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Lily O'Hara Mysteries
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y separately published work icon What Remains Tracey Lee , Canberra : Tracey Lee , 2015 9642436 2015 single work novel

'The O'Hara family has lived on Lake Road for generations-since 1825, in fact. Their fates have been as varied as the lake's depths, but 1975 was a pivotal time in the life of the family. It was the year that Lily O'Hara was born and her mother, Moya, and brother, Brannen, disappeared. It was assumed that the two had drowned, but the bodies were never recovered. Her father, Cillian, could offer no explanation for the disappearance of his wife and son. The police and locals believed he was guilty of murder, but without bodies no charges could be laid. The young father attempted to raise his baby daughter with the help of his unmarried brother and sister, Darcy and Billie. The weight of loss and presumed guilt drove Cillian to take his own life when Lily was only nine months old. The novel commences with twenty-six-year-old Lily watching the now diminishing lake and thinking about her life. She tries to avoid dwelling on her family's demise. Billie and Darcy are now dead, and she knows little about the events from 1975. But the past can never be truly silenced, and the noise of those terrible losses roars back to life when bones are discovered in the drying mud of the now-empty lake. Lily is an archivist and curator. In her working life she makes sense of the past lives of other people by assigning meaning to the artefacts they leave behind. It becomes her mission to make sense of her father's actions by examining what evidence remains. She will also come to accept that she, like all of us, has been shaped by the past. She must decide if she will be consumed or strengthened by what she finds out' (publication blurb).

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y separately published work icon Wither Tracey Lee , Canberra : Shooting Star Press , 2019 18580623 2019 single work novel crime

'Wither, book two in the Lily O'Hara series, explores the power of the monster hiding in plain sight. A power afforded him by the silence of others.

'Lily O'Hara faces the pain of buried pasts. She is no stranger to delving into secrets and is drawn to the unknown story of a young fisherman who takes his life and leaves a cryptic message about the truth killing him. Max Fraser, best friend of her husband Phillip, received the letter and asks Lily to help him decipher it and come to understand what precipitated the suicide.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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