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'Mak Vanderwall - beautiful, street-wise daughter of a cop, graduate in forensic psychology, and now PI - is hired by a widowed mother to track down her missing nineteen-year-old son.
Has he come to harm? Or has he run off with a bizarre troupe of shady French cabaret artists sweeping through Australia? Has the dark beauty of the burlesque, the magic, the mind-bending contortion, beguiled him? Or has he been seduced by the mysterious and amoral older woman who has a terrifying starring role in the troupe's modern performances of the Grand Guignol "Theatre of Fear", famous in Paris in the early 1900s?
And what of the rumours of violence and tragedy that have plagued the troupe for the past decade? Is their horrifying past fact or fiction?
Meanwhile, Mak is increasingly obsessed with the powerful Cavanagh family, one of Australia's richest and most ruthless families, whom she believes has got away with murder. And it seems their security advisor Mr White, and his hit man, Luther Hand, may not have forgotten about Mak either ...' (From the publisher's website.)
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Dedication: To new beginnings.
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Epigraph: Security is most likely a superstition. It does not exist in nature. - Helen Keller
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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Book Review – Siren by Tara Moss
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Booklover Book Reviews 2010;
— Review of Siren 2010 single work novel -
Fiction
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 24 October 2009; (p. 25)
— Review of Siren 2010 single work novel -
Model of Misdemeanour
2009
single work
biography
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 30 September - 6 October no. 754 2009; (p. 14) -
Author's Ral Life Thrill
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 12 - 13 September 2009; (p. 23)
— Review of Siren 2010 single work novel -
Siren : The Sound of Success
2009
single work
column
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 23 August 2009; (p. 4-5)
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Author's Ral Life Thrill
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 12 - 13 September 2009; (p. 23)
— Review of Siren 2010 single work novel -
Fiction
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 24 October 2009; (p. 25)
— Review of Siren 2010 single work novel -
Book Review – Siren by Tara Moss
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Booklover Book Reviews 2010;
— Review of Siren 2010 single work novel -
Siren : The Sound of Success
2009
single work
column
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 23 August 2009; (p. 4-5) -
Model of Misdemeanour
2009
single work
biography
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 30 September - 6 October no. 754 2009; (p. 14)
Awards
- 2010 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel
- 2010 nominated Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best Novel
- Sydney, New South Wales,
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Paris,
cFrance,cWestern Europe, Europe,