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Title:
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Vanishing Place, The |
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Authors:
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Rankin, Zoe |
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Genre:
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Fiction: New Zealand |
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Pages:
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376 |
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Year:
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2025 |
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Publisher:
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Moa Press |
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Language:
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English |
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Description:
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On the remote West Coast of the South Island, vast forests stretch out between mountain ranges and rugged beaches. There, in the small town of Koraha, not a lot happens - until a young girl with blood on her hands walks out of the bush and into the local store, collapsing to the floor.
She can't - or won't - speak to anyone. It's the town's sole policeman who recognises her face. She looks exactly like a local girl who disappeared twenty years ago. She has the same red hair. The same green eyes.
What horrors has she left behind in the bush? Who will come looking for her? And what secrets are about to come to light?
A twisty and daring thriller about how those close to you can be even more dangerous than the deadliest wilderness. Hachette. Taken from the book blurb.
Comments from BDS Reviewers:
I am recommending this book to all my reading friends, and have even bought a copy to lend. A great thriller set clearly in N.Z, and you're never clear where it is heading.
Even my Canadian visitors loved it!
For a N.Z. author debut this was a great read. I look forward to her next novel.
Ultimately what I loved about this book was its setting. Rankin describes the West Coast using precise and concise descriptive language and phrases. It reflects Rankin's love of, and respect for, the bush.
The book is described on the back cover as 'a daring thriller', which I don't think does it justice. It indeed explores heinous crimes committed, but it is also a suspenseful mystery novel which has multiple layers.
The author had written this book prior to the story of the Phillips family of Marokopa became known. She has been quoted as saying that it is quite uncanny, even to her, how many similarities there are between the facts, and the fictional life of her story.
This is a story that will have thoughts racing around in your head as you register the facts as given with the questions they raise. It has immediacy, interest, background, and intrigue woven through the pages.
If you love the N.Z. bush, you will recapture feelings of time spent immersed in the sights and sounds of nature, and the spookiness that sits just below the surface once the day turns to darkness.
I enjoyed thinking about the instances of families living in isolation in the wilderness in N.Z, and wondering where the story was going.
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