02227cam a2200325 i 4500 771892690 TxAuBib 20221015120000.0 220304s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022002312 9781250834751 HRD 27.99 1250834759 HRD 27.99 DLC eng rda DLC NjBwBT GCmBT NjBwBT TxAuBib rda Scrivenor, Hayley, author. Dirt Creek [Book] / Hayley Scrivenor. First U.S. edition. New York : Flatiron Books, 2022. 324 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "In Hayley Scrivenor's Dirt Creek, a small-town debut mystery described as The Dry meets Everything I Never Told You, a girl goes missing and a community falls apart and comes together. When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school ina small town in rural Australia, the community is thrown into a maelstrom of suspicion and grief. As Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels arrives in town during the hottest spring in decades and begins her investigation, Esther's tenacious best friend, Ronnie, is determined to find Esther and bring her home. When schoolfriend Lewis tells Ronnie that he saw Esther with a strange man at the creek the afternoon she went missing, Ronnie feels she is one step closer to finding her. But why is Lewis refusing to speak to the police? And who else is lying about how much they know about what has happened to Esther? Punctuated by a Greek chorus, which gives voice to the remaining children of the small, dying town, this novel explores the ties that bind, what we try and leave behind us, and what we can never outrun, while never losing sight of the question of what happened to Esther, and what her loss does to a whole town"-- Provided by publisher. 20221122. Missing children Fiction. Best friends Fiction. City and town life Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Novels.