AustLit

'Winter in Tiverton.

'Constable Paul Hirschhausen has a snowdropper on his patch. Someone is stealing women’s underwear, and Hirsch knows enough about that kind of crime—how it can escalate—not to take it lightly.

'But the more immediate concern is a high school teacher worried about one of the students.

'A little girl in danger. A family on the edge. An absent father who isn’t where he’s supposed to be.

'The cold, seeping feeling something is very, very wrong.' (Publication summary)

'A gripping novel about the power of childhood cruelty, and how it makes us the adults we become.

'IT'S BEEN TWENTY YEARS

'BUT ALL IS NOT FORGIVEN

'Katy is not the shy schoolgirl she once was, and she's looking forward to showing her classmates who she's become.

'Annabel was the queen bee. But her fall from grace changed her life forever.

'Zach was cruel, but he thinks he's changed.

'Robbie was a target. And he never stood a chance.

'The reunion will bring together friends and enemies, many for the first time in decades. But someone is still holding a grudge...'

Source: Publisher's blurb.