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The Fall Between

By: Darcy Tindale
Narrated by: Jessica Bell
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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 Crime Thrillers Thriller Thriller & Suspense Crime Fiction Suspense Detective Mystery

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

Great read!

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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.

I’m a new fan!

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

loved it!!

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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.

The Fall Between

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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

Great read

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Great reading. Both male and female characters came alive as well as the country and heat

The camaraderie of the police working in such difficult conditions and the importance of that to each other

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It was a brilliant read. It was a shame Jessica Bell didn't know how to pronounce basic words in the English language. Clearly it is a trough Not truff!! as well as numerous other mispronunciation. Unfortunately this made a beautifully written book hard to listen to

Brilliant twists that kept it interesting till the end

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unable to put this book down. wonderfully narrated. with a charge of adrenaline the twists just kept coming. beautiful. setting easy flow characters. this book was a great read and I certainly look forward to another. thankyou.

Highly recommend

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I loved the story, the characters, the twists and turns and the feeling of realness. Can’t wait to read your next book.

Just loved this book

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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.

Interesting but annoying

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