Echo Lake

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Author
Joan Sauers
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Genre
Fiction
Released
02 May, 2023
ISBN
9781761067594

Echo Lake

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Synopsis

A compulsive debut thriller that will haunt you long after you've turned the final page.

In the sleepy, scenic Southern Highlands of New South Wales, a beautiful young woman goes missing.

Six years later, recently divorced historian Rose McHugh leaves the city to start a new life in the Highlands and finds a roll of film buried in her back garden. On it are photos of the missing woman.

Against the advice of an enigmatic detective, she uses her powers of persuasion and her knack for deciphering clues to pursue the case. As Rose searches through tangled secrets and hidden places haunted by the past, she realises there is a killer at large.

As she makes new friends, and dangerous enemies, Rose closes in on a suspect—but will she solve the mystery too late to save herself?

Set in the atmospheric villages and forests of the Southern Highlands, Echo Lake is a compulsive read that will keep you guessing until the very end.

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Q&A: Joan Sauers, Author of Echo Lake

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11 May 2023

Q&A: Joan Sauers, Author of Echo Lake

    A Compulsive Debut Thriller: Read an Extract from Echo Lake by Joan Sauers

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    11 May 2023

    A Compulsive Debut Thriller: Read an Extract from Echo Lake by Joan Sauers

      Joan Sauers
      About the author

      Joan Sauers

      Born in New York, Joan Sauers is a screenwriter, producer and author who worked in London, Los Angeles and New York before settling in Australia. She has lectured in screenwriting in Sydney, London, Paris, Berlin and Casablanca. She has had fourteen books published in Australia, the US, India and Japan. She has been script editor on films including The Babadook and TV shows, Rake and The Principal, and has written many screenplays. Most recently, Joan was a writer on the ABC series Wakefield, which also aired on Showtime in the US. She is currently writing the TV series Ladies in Black, and a sci-fi romance created by her daughter, as well as her next Southern Highlands mystery. Joan divides her time between Sydney and the Southern Highlands, and has one daughter and two grandsons.

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