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The Fall Between

By: Darcy Tindale
Narrated by: Jessica Bell
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Publisher's Summary

On a hot November morning, the first body lies in a cattle trough...It will be another two hours before rigor mortis sets in. Until then, the slim fingers will float below the water's surface, gently bobbing, beckoning Detective Giles to come and find her.

Detective Rebecca Giles has just finished interviewing aging petty crim Sticky Pete over a spate of break-and-enters when a disturbing new report comes in. Twelve-year-old Kayleen Ellis has vanished from her home in Muswellbrook in the Upper Hunter Valley.

Hours later, Giles is a local hero, having apparently solved Kayleen's case and the spate of jewellery thefts. 

Yet the hangover from her celebrations has barely kicked in when the body of young jillaroo Ava Emmerson is discovered in gruesome circumstances on a nearby farm. 

Giles is convinced the link between all three cases lies in the town's tragic history, perhaps even in her own mother's mysterious drowning thirty years ago. 

In a place where nothing much changes, suddenly a great deal is happening - and Giles's life and career are now on the line.

©2023 Darcy Tindale (P)2023 Penguin Random House Australia Audio

Critic Reviews

"Rural noir at its very best." (Candice Fox)

"Unpredictable, authentic, a thrilling debut. This gripping tale kept me up all night." (Margaret Hickey)

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Beautiful narrative by Jessica Bell. Captures the mood and atmosphere perfectly. Vocally draws the reader deep into the story and the characters lives - and their determination to ‘Kracken’ the case.

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Atmospheric & Suspenseful

Great characters and prose. I can visualise everything that’s described.
Once I started I wanted to keep listening!

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Great read

Great story line , good reader ... loved the characters, the story line went quickly ... keeping you gripped couldn't put the book down ! well done I will Certainly will read the authors other books

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Great read!

Very well done. Love a good Australian story. Will be keeping an eye out for your next book!

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I’m a new fan!

Loved the story line and the characters. I felt like I was shadowing the characters, feeling their indecisions, failures and triumphs. Well done looking forward to the next book.

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Interesting but annoying

Just ok. Narrator had many annoying accents for the various characters, all of which were not likeable. Some pronunciation was incorrect including but not limited to “trough”. From a medical perspective, the Heimlich manoeuvre is not practiced in Australia and you do not perform CPR on someone “going into” cardiac arrest.
Having said all that, still an achievement worth celebrating to have a published work.

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loved it!!

great story, characters and plot! really enjoyed this book, a few twists and good character development, i’ll read authors next book for sure

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Love this Aussie Author

Darcy is also known for her comedy but this thrill seeking novel was great! I really enjoyed it & the narrator kept me interested. I hope there's another (& many more) to follow.

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Meh

It’s not dreadful but I found the narrator made the characters seem very whiny & sulky. Story line is ok. Nothing spectacular. I’ve given it 3/5.

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The narrator is so bad

Although other reviewers praised the narrator I gave up on the book due to the bad narration. The story is set in the Hunter Region near Newcastle; the narrator made everyone sound like they just walked onto the set of an 1940's Chips Rafferty movie. The story was ordinary made more ordinary by the narrator, don't waste a credit.

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I really tried to like this book. But it was really boring and dragged on and on without anything ever happening.

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  • 07-07-2023

an easy listen

Easy to listen to, but did take a while to get into it !

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