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Issue Details: First known date: 2024... 2024 Red River Road
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'Katy Sweeney is determined to find her sister. A year earlier, just three weeks into a solo vanlife trip, free-spirited Phoebe vanished without a trace on Western Australia’s remote and achingly beautiful Coral Coast. With no witnesses, no leads, and no DNA evidence, the case has gone cold. But Katy refuses to give up.

'Using Phoebe’s social media accounts as a map, Katy starts to retrace her steps, searching for the clues that the police have missed. Was Phoebe being followed? Who had she met along the way, and what danger did they pose? Was she as happy as her sun-bleached, lens-flared photos seem to suggest?

'Then Katy’s path collides with that of Beth, a young woman on the run from her own dark past—and very recent present. And as Katy realizes that Beth might be her best and only chance of finding the truth, the two women form an uneasy alliance to venture forth into increasingly wild territory to find out what really happened to Phoebe in this breathtaking but maybe deadly place, and how her fate connects them all.

'Anna Downes takes us on a twist-filled journey into the dark side of solo female travel, in this gripping novel that explores what drives us to keep searching for those we have lost, the family bonds that can make or break us, and the deception of memory.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Minotaur Books ,
      2024 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 384p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 27 August 2024.
      ISBN: 9781250868015
Form: audiobook
    • Leicestershire,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      W. F. Howes ,
      2024 .
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      Extent: 11 hrs and 24 minsp.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 May 2024

Works about this Work

Anna Downes Red River Road and Lisa Kenway All You Took From Me Justine Ettler , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , October 2024;

— Review of Red River Road Anna Downes , 2024 single work novel ; All You Took From Me Lisa Kenway , 2024 single work novel

'These two new crime thrillers from Australian writers Anna Downes and Lisa Kenway bring fresh takes to the genre.'

y separately published work icon Anna Downes in Conversation Kate Mildenhall (interviewer), 2024 28331942 2024 single work podcast interview

'In this episode, a conversation with Anna Downes, author of the crime novels The Safe Place, The Shadow House, and now, Red River Road.

'In this new book, set on the Coral Coast of Western Australia, solo traveller Katy is on a mission to find her free-spirited sister, Phoebe, who disappeared along the same route a year ago. But as she drives her campervan further into the wild north, Katy realises she's not as alone as she'd first believed. Soon she is pulled into a complicated web of secrets, lies, myths and stories that force her to question everything she thought she knew about her sister.

'Downes was joined in conversation by Kate Mildenhall, author of the acclaimed novels Skylarking, The Mother Fault, and The Hummingbird Effect.'  (Production summary)

Anna Downes Red River Road and Lisa Kenway All You Took From Me Justine Ettler , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , October 2024;

— Review of Red River Road Anna Downes , 2024 single work novel ; All You Took From Me Lisa Kenway , 2024 single work novel

'These two new crime thrillers from Australian writers Anna Downes and Lisa Kenway bring fresh takes to the genre.'

y separately published work icon Anna Downes in Conversation Kate Mildenhall (interviewer), 2024 28331942 2024 single work podcast interview

'In this episode, a conversation with Anna Downes, author of the crime novels The Safe Place, The Shadow House, and now, Red River Road.

'In this new book, set on the Coral Coast of Western Australia, solo traveller Katy is on a mission to find her free-spirited sister, Phoebe, who disappeared along the same route a year ago. But as she drives her campervan further into the wild north, Katy realises she's not as alone as she'd first believed. Soon she is pulled into a complicated web of secrets, lies, myths and stories that force her to question everything she thought she knew about her sister.

'Downes was joined in conversation by Kate Mildenhall, author of the acclaimed novels Skylarking, The Mother Fault, and The Hummingbird Effect.'  (Production summary)

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