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Is part of Mak Vanderwall Series Tara Moss , 1999 series - author novel (number 5 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Siren
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'Mak Vanderwall - beautiful, street-wise daughter of a cop, graduate in forensic psychology, and now PI - is hired by a widowed mother to track down her missing nineteen-year-old son.

Has he come to harm? Or has he run off with a bizarre troupe of shady French cabaret artists sweeping through Australia? Has the dark beauty of the burlesque, the magic, the mind-bending contortion, beguiled him? Or has he been seduced by the mysterious and amoral older woman who has a terrifying starring role in the troupe's modern performances of the Grand Guignol "Theatre of Fear", famous in Paris in the early 1900s?

And what of the rumours of violence and tragedy that have plagued the troupe for the past decade? Is their horrifying past fact or fiction?

Meanwhile, Mak is increasingly obsessed with the powerful Cavanagh family, one of Australia's richest and most ruthless families, whom she believes has got away with murder. And it seems their security advisor Mr White, and his hit man, Luther Hand, may not have forgotten about Mak either ...' (From the publisher's website.)

Notes

  • Dedication: To new beginnings.
  • Epigraph: Security is most likely a superstition. It does not exist in nature. - Helen Keller

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2010 .
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      Extent: 391p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 1st July 2010
      ISBN: 9780732285128 (pbk.)
    • Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2010 .
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      Extent: 432p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 1st July 2010
      ISBN: 9780730491897

Other Formats

  • Sound recording.
  • Large print.

Works about this Work

Book Review – Siren by Tara Moss Joanne Peulen , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Booklover Book Reviews 2010;

— Review of Siren Tara Moss , 2010 single work novel
Fiction Dianne Dempsey , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 24 October 2009; (p. 25)

— Review of Siren Tara Moss , 2010 single work novel
Model of Misdemeanour Lucy Brook , 2009 single work biography
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 30 September - 6 October no. 754 2009; (p. 14)
Author's Ral Life Thrill Leanne Edmistone , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 12 - 13 September 2009; (p. 23)

— Review of Siren Tara Moss , 2010 single work novel
Siren : The Sound of Success Karen Hardy , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 23 August 2009; (p. 4-5)
Author's Ral Life Thrill Leanne Edmistone , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 12 - 13 September 2009; (p. 23)

— Review of Siren Tara Moss , 2010 single work novel
Fiction Dianne Dempsey , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 24 October 2009; (p. 25)

— Review of Siren Tara Moss , 2010 single work novel
Book Review – Siren by Tara Moss Joanne Peulen , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Booklover Book Reviews 2010;

— Review of Siren Tara Moss , 2010 single work novel
Siren : The Sound of Success Karen Hardy , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 23 August 2009; (p. 4-5)
Model of Misdemeanour Lucy Brook , 2009 single work biography
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 30 September - 6 October no. 754 2009; (p. 14)
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