Product details
- ISBN 9780733652158
- Weight: 447g
- Dimensions: 152 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2025
- Publisher: Hachette Australia
- Publication City/Country: AU
- Product Form: Paperback
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'A sure-fire page-turner that keeps readers guessing' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Shelley Burr does not take prisoners. Crime fiction at its effortless best - beautifully drawn characters, rich relationships, fast and fascinating plot, and twists that make you go "ah"' LAINIE ANDERSON
'VANISH delivers a surprising climax worthy of Shelley's reputation as one of Australia's most exciting new crime writers' THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S WEEKLY
'Everything you want from an Australian crime thriller' WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN
People go to the isolated Karpathy farm seeking a new life - but not everything is as it seems. Is it a commune? A cult? Or something far more insidious?
Lane Holland's crime-solving career ended the day he went to prison. Yet one unsolved case continues to haunt him: the disappearance of Matilda Carver two decades ago.
Against the odds, Lane finds a lead - a mysterious farm community where Matilda lived briefly, led by the enigmatic Samuel Karpathy. The farm attracts lost souls. People looking for answers. People hiding from their pasts. And people who have nowhere else to go.
But some of those who go to the farm vanish without a trace . . .
'A sizzling, boldly original page-turner - an intense and utterly gripping thriller' ROSE CARLYLE
'A constant unnerving undercurrent bubbling away on every page' DARCY TINDALE
'Wonderfully twisty. A compelling read that combines complex characters with a gripping mystery' CANBERRA WEEKLY
'Addictive' WOMAN'S DAY
Shelley Burr grew up on Newcastle's beaches and her grandparents' property in Glenrowan, and on the road between the two. When not writing, Shelley is working to establish a small permaculture farm and is studying sustainable agriculture at the University of New England.
Her debut novel, WAKE, was a Top Five bestseller, won the prestigious UK Crime Writers' Association's Debut Dagger Award in 2019, and the Australian Book Industry's Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year and the Australian Crime Writers Association's Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction in 2023. WAKE was also shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards Debut Fiction Award.
Her second novel, RIPPER, went straight to Number One on the Australian Fiction Bestseller list and was shortlisted for both the Sydney Crime Writers Festival's Danger Award for Fiction and the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction in 2024.
VANISH, a Top Ten bestseller, is Shelley's third book in the Lane Holland series and can be enjoyed as a standalone novel.
