Vanishing Falls By: Poppy Gee $22.50 RRP $29.99 (25% off)

Celia Lily is rich, beautiful, and admired. She's also missing. And the search for the glamorous socialite is about to expose all the dark, dirty secrets of Vanishing Falls... Deep within the lush Tasmanian rainforest is the remote town of Vanishing Falls, a place with a storied past. The town's showpiece, built in the 1800s, is its Calendar House-currently occupied by Jack Lily, a prominent art collector and landowner; his wife, Celia; and their four daughters. The elaborate, eccentrically designed mansion houses one masterpiece and 52 rooms-and Celia Lily isn't in any of them. She has vanished without a trace.... Joelle Smithton knows that a few folks in Vanishing Falls believe that she's simple-minded. It's true that Joelle's brain works a little differently-a legacy of shocking childhood trauma. But Joelle sees far more than most people realize, and remembers details that others cast away. For instance, she knows that Celia's husband, Jack, has connections to unsavory local characters whom he's desperate to keep hidden. He's not the only one in town with something to conceal. Even Joelle's own husband, Brian, a butcher, is acting suspiciously. While the police flounder, unable to find Celia, Joelle is gradually parsing the truth from the gossip she hears and from the simple gestures and statements that can unwittingly reveal so much. Just as the water from the falls disappears into the ground, gushing away through subterranean creeks, the secrets in Vanishing Falls are pulsing through the town, about to converge. And when they do, Joelle must summon the courage to reveal what really happened to Celia, even if it means exposing her own past... About the Author Poppy Gee is the author of psychological mystery novels Bay of Fires and Vanishing Falls. Both novels are set in Tasmania, Australia, where Poppy grew up. Poppy lives in Brisbane, Queensland, with her husband, three children and three cats. She has worked as a journalist, editor, book reviewer and journalism/creative writing teacher, as well as a ski guide in Zermatt, yacht stewardess on the French Riviera, and a B&B manager in Edinburgh. She holds a master's degree in Creative Writing from the University of Queensland. When she is not writing, Poppy loves reading across all genres, hiking alone in the forest, taking her kids to the beach, and snow skiing any chance she gets.