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The Fossil Hunter
The Fossil Hunter | Tea Cooper
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A fossil discovered at London's Natural History Museum leads one woman back in time to nineteenth century Australia and a world of scientific discovery and dark secrets in this compelling historical mystery. The Hunter Valley 1847 The last thing Mellie Vale remembers before the fever takes her is running through the bush as a monster chases her - but no one believes her story. In a bid to curb Mellie's overactive imagination, her benefactors send her to visit a family friend, Anthea Winstanley. Anthea is an amateur palaeontologist with a dream. She is convinced she will one day find proof the great sea dragons - the ichthyosaur and the plesiosaur - swam in the vast inland sea that millions of years ago covered her property at Bow Wow Gorge. Soon, Mellie shares that dream for she loves fossil hunting too... 1919 When Penelope Jane Martindale arrives home from the battlefields of World War I with the intention of making her peace with her father and commemorating the death of her two younger brothers in the trenches, her reception is not as she had hoped. Looking for distraction, she finds a connection between a fossil at London's Natural History museum and her brothers which leads her to Bow Wow Gorge. But the gorge has a sinister reputation - 70 years ago people disappeared. So when PJ uncovers some unexpected remains, it seems as if the past is reaching into the present and she becomes determined to discover what really happened all that time ago...
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bookandbedandtea
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Finished this HF while #audiostitching today.
I liked the 1919 storyline and characters a bit more than the 1847 story. Still, it was good and I'll look for more by this author. #LitsyCrafters

dabbe Very pretty! 💙🖤🩵 8mo
wanderinglynn Ooh, I love the dark aida cloth—it makes the colors pop! 😍 8mo
bookandbedandtea @dabbe Thank you 😊 8mo
bookandbedandtea @wanderinglynn Thanks! I love how it looks too but it's killing my eyes! 🙈 8mo
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McCombsonMain
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Even if you don‘t have an interest in fossils – which I don‘t – if you love historical mysteries, you‘ll love this book of family adopted and biological, and histories of both the living and the dead.

https://mccombsonmain.com/2022/09/29/fiction-review-fossil-hunter-cooper/

#Australia #historicalfiction #timeslip

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LapReader
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Another writer‘s festival picture from yesterday. This one is of my Satan‘s Little Book Coven‘s current book pick. It is fiction loosely based on the history of my friend‘s farm and its conservation importance. It is the second book I‘ve read of hers and it is much better than the last one. I will keep reading her books not for the writing but for the local history in them. This is the second time I have been to watch her speak at a local library.

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LapReader
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Gorgeous day today at Cedar Creek. Kids played hard with their cousins. We had a picnic lunch. The only thing missing was a bottle of white in the cold water. I‘m reading the tagged book for book club. It‘s actually set on a property my friend owns. Picture snapped by man friend. Prior to this he snuck up on me & scared the living daylights out of me. I didn‘t hear him sneaking through the bush at all. I thought he went for a walk with the kids.

IuliaC Great photo! 👍 2y
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