Gripping Page-Turner: Read an Extract from The Liars by Petronella McGovern

Gripping Page-Turner: Read an Extract from The Liars by Petronella McGovern

The location app on Meri’s phone pinged as she was shifting the last cardboard box. She knew what the notification would say: Taj has 0% battery. Ask him to recharge. Her son was always forgetting to plug in his mobile, unlike his twin sister.

‘What’s in the box?’ her husband asked from the other side of the garage.

‘Mum’s old National Geographics, I think.’ Meri hadn’t been able to throw them away in previous clean-ups.

After brushing off the dust, she slid a knife through the crusty tape. But instead of a magazine cover with the distinctive yellow border, she found a pile of exercise books. The top one had a heart-shaped label: Meredith Carmody, Year 9 English, Kinton Bay High School, 1998. Year 9. The same as her twins now.

Turning her back to Rollo, she shielded the book with her body and flipped it open to a story in her neat teenage handwriting…

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        Publisher details

        The Liars
        Author
        Petronella McGovern
        Publisher
        Allen & Unwin
        Genre
        Fiction
        ISBN
        9781760879242

        Synopsis

        What if your search for the truth puts your family at risk?

        The close-knit community of Kinton Bay is shocked when fifteen-year-old Siena Britton makes a grisly discovery in the national park. She believes it's a skull from the town's violent colonial past and posts a video which hits the news headlines.

        Her parents, Meri and Rollo, aren't so sure. In 1998, their classmate went missing after a party in the Killing Cave. They're horrified to discover the destructive teenage parties are still happening, and Siena was there last weekend.

        While Meri is trying to keep her daughter out of trouble, she doesn't realise her son, Taj, has his own problems. And none of them foresees the danger that Siena's actions will create for the whole family.

        As more secrets are exposed, the police investigate whether multiple murders have been committed. If so, by whom? And is the killer still living in Kinton Bay?

        The Liars is a heart-stopping cocktail of family secrets, sinister unsolved killings and a community at war with itself.

        Petronella McGovern
        About the author

        Petronella McGovern

        Petronella McGovern's books have been described as domestic noir and psychological suspense. With strong characters and gripping storylines, her novels will keep you reading - and guessing - late into the night. Petronella grew up on in a large family on a farm in the Central West of New South Wales. After travelling and working in Canberra for a number of years, she now lives on Sydney's northern beaches with her husband and their two teenagers. Petronella's bestselling debut novel, Six Minutes, was shortlisted for the Australian Crime Writers' Association's Ned Kelly Awards and longlisted for the Australian Independent Bookseller's Indie Book Awards. Her second novel, The Good Teacher, was longlisted for the Davitt Awards. The Liars is her third novel.

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