Darkwater
A beautifully atmospheric mystery about family, politics and murder in an idyllic Sydney suburb
Available Formats
-
Darkwater Paperback ISBN: 9781864719833 Published: 01/07/2010 Imprint: Random House Australia Children's Extent: 288 pages Subject: Crime & mystery $18.95 RRP
-
Darkwater EBook ISBN: 9781742740027 Published: 01/02/2011 Imprint: RHA eBooks Child Extent: 288 pages Subject: Crime & mystery $18.95 RRP Buy Now
Synopsis
Amanda Clarke is dead. Her body was found floating facedown by the riverbank, and no one knows what happened. As rumours fly and fear grows, it seems that everyone suspects Lyndon, one of Amanda's friends. He's known for his temper, his cruelty and his criminal family - and now the police want to talk to him. It's the end of summer, 1973, the heat is enough to melt asphalt and a sleepy riverside suburb is losing some of its innocence. Fifteen-year-old Winter went to the same school and hung out in the same places as Amanda. As she finds herself alone in trying to defend Lyndon, Winter learns that you can never really know someone - and the answers she has been looking for are closer than she has ever wanted to believe.
News & Blog
More News & BlogThe days are getting shorter and the mornings increasingly crisp which in the Australian publishing world can only mean one thing – the Sydney Writers’ Festival is upon us. Between Monday 16 and Sunday 22 May Sydney will be swarming with writers and festival-goers and this year Artistic Director Chip Rolley is treating us to over 400 events with some amazing writers in locations all...
CBCA Book of the Year Shortlist and Notables Announced
by Random House Australia on 13 April 2011
10 Random House authors included in both lists
Video
Your Reviews
Georgia Blain Books
More- Strange Times (Storycuts)
by Georgia BlainNothing is as vivid, or as strange, as the memory of our school days.
- Births Deaths Marriages
by Georgia BlainA brutally honest account of love, marriage, families and death.
Others Also Viewed
- Second Son: (Jack Reacher Short Story)
by Lee ChildA brand-new Jack Reacher story, published as a digital exclusive!
- The Payback
by Simon KernickTwo cops. One city. No mercy. The new race-against-time bestseller by the UK Harlan Coben
- Tick Tock
by James PattersonNYC’s no. 1 detective, Michael Bennett, has a huge problem – the Son of Sam, the Werewolf...













olivia redwin0 stars
11 November 2011 at 3:13pm
Reporthello, i absolutely adore darkwater. i live in the suburb it is written about and me and my best friend walk down past hunters hill high every day and scare our selves silly