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An Island Lost
An Island Lost
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Sipping latté in a NY café, Vilia is not surprised to hear that her mother has drowned herself back home in Australia, but she is shocked to learn she has now inherited a tropical island on the tip of Papua New Guinea, and it’s from this remote region that her father disappeared mysteriously when she was just aged three.

Suddenly, reluctantly, Vilia is swept out of her fastidious Manhattan lifestyle and into the wild unpredictability of the Pacific. From the crowded streets of New York city to the remote Tubu Island and beyond, Vilia follows a series of tantalizing clues to uncover the truth about her father’s vanishing. Did he run off with the missing hausgirl? Fall foul to a tragic accident? Or was there something darker, more sinister at play?

Along her journey of discovery, Vilia encounters the ancestors of proud headhunters, eccentric expatriates and an elusive witchdoctor with a story to tell. But is it a story she is willing to hear?

In this spellbinding mystery, Christina Larmer shows how searching for the truth far outweighs burying your head in the sand and hiding safely away.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherC.A. Larmer
Release dateJan 5, 2012
ISBN9780987187222
An Island Lost
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Christina Larmer

Christina (C.A.) Larmer is the author of nine books, including six in the popular Ghostwriter Mystery Series featuring sassy 'ghost' Roxy Parker, The Agatha Christie Book Club, and the stand-alone family saga An Island Lost.Christina was born in tropical Papua New Guinea, educated in Australia and has lived and worked around the world including NY, LA and London. An editor by trade, she now freelances and writes fiction from her home in the hinterland behind Byron Bay, on the East coast of Australia, which she shares with her musician husband, two boys, a dog, six chickens and countless snakes.

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