A mother and child missing for thirty years
An old stone house with no history
Secrets buried below the floor
Glimpsed lives from 200 years past
If only the stones could talk
Now a new mystery – the mother’s pendant is found
From the author of The Old Balmain House this is a story set in early Sydney
Its consequences reverberate down through successive generations until today
She bends forward. A silver pendant falls from her top, swinging free on a chain from her neck.
The name ’Cindy’ is in silver cursive letters. On its back is a heart symbol and, ’From Jim’.
I remember so clearly the day I bought it. I did not have money to buy my Cindy a wedding ring.
But, with the twenty dollars I had saved, I bought this. I gave it to her with all my love.
She hung it around her neck, where it stayed until she and our baby vanished.
Now, after thirty years, it has returned.
Om författaren
Graham Wilson lives in Sydney, Australia in an old house near Circular Quay. It was built in 1841 and breathes with its history. He has often said ’If only the walls could talk’ and tell the stories of others who have lived here over almost 200 years, along with the original people of this land.
In his non writing life he is a veterinarian who both works in conservation and providing livestock health and production services to farmers
He has completed and published twelve previous books.
They comprise two series,
1. The Old Balmain House Series (3 books)
2. The Crocodile Spirit Dreaming Series (7 books)
He has also written a family memoir. ’Arnhem’s Kaleidoscope Children’. This tells of his family’s life in an aboriginal community the Northern Territory’s remote Arnhem Land. It chronicles an idyllic childhood, 50 years of change with aboriginal land rights and discovery or uranium. It also tells of his surviving an attack by a large crocodile and of his work over two decades in the outback of the NT.
He has also written a stand alone novel ’Risk Free’ and now this novel ’Mysteries’