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Vanishing Falls
Vanishing Falls: A Novel | Poppy Gee
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One of CrimeReads Most Anticipated Books of the Year! "This literary thriller paints as vivid a landscape as any book coming out this summer...Gee creates a lush, tantalizing world that readers will want to travel into deeper and deeper."CrimeReads Celia Lily is rich, beautiful, and admired. Shes 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 towns showpiece, built in the 1800s, is its Calendar Housecurrently 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 roomsand Celia Lily isnt in any of them. She has vanished without a trace. Joelle Smithton knows that a few folks in Vanishing Falls believe that shes simple-minded. Its true that Joelles brain works a little differentlya 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 Celias husband, Jack, has connections to unsavory local characters whom hes desperate to keep hidden. Hes not the only one in town with something to conceal. Even Joelles 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
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DebinHawaii
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#HumbleHarvest

Two ARCs with #FallInTitle that have been sitting in my Kindle TBR for a while now. 📚📚📚🤷🏻‍♀️📚📚

Eggs These covers 💙🩵❤️🧡 6mo
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BookNAround
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Gatsby is helping me tackle this penultimate present. I might actually finish all the books I‘m giving if this one is a quick read. 😁

BiblioLitten Gatsby💙 2y
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Teresereading
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Late on a wet winter‘s night, Jack Lily arrived home to find his front door wide open and the antique carpet drenched.
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

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CoffeeK8
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A cozy & nuanced mystery set in Tasmania surrounding the disappearance of glamours Celia, a mysterious painting & how the drug trade can destroy a town. Joelle is a woman who appears to be on the autism spectrum, and when younger survived a horrible childhood to grow up to be a happy wife and mother. She is pulled into the mystery of the woman's disappearance, due to bad luck & a desire to please the people around her.

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DGRachel
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This is all about me, not the book. It‘s a small village mystery full of miserable people and seedy secrets. Most of the characters are unlikeable and unpleasant, and the storyline for Joelle is just breaking my heart. The writing is very good, but the plot is just not for me. I can see this getting a lot of #LitsyLove.
5/20 #netgalleyreviewathon I won‘t be leaving feedback on NetGalley for this one.

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Monica5
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Loved it. Small Town mystery. Big question is: what happened to Celia Lily? I like trying to figure out who did what in a mystery. I figured this one out, right before the reveal.

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