Leo Bronski, a postmaster at Howe's Bluff in Western Alaska, is a Vietnam vet who has fought alcoholism for years. His boss asks him to take over the post office at Fire Bay, because that facility's supervisor had died in a suspicious boating accident, and its postmaster is presiding over a drunk ta
Bay of Fires
β Scribed by Gee, Poppy
- Book ID
- 107605584
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 290 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780316201674
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Sarah Avery's reckless behavior has cost her a job, her boyfriend, and the independence she desperately craves. Reluctantly home for the holidays in the Bay of Fires, a tiny seaside town on the Tasmanian coast, she hopes for a calm, quiet visit, with time to reflect on all that's gone wrong. Those hopes are crushed when, early one morning, she discovers the body of a young female backpacker washed up on the shore.
A year earlier, another woman went missing and hasn't been seen since. Now everyone wonders: is there a killer in the brush? Or were these women victims of Tasmania itself? The island is place of savage beauty: pristine sand beneath orange-lichen covered granite boulders; heaving shadowy kelp fields; sweeping cold currents; crackling bush beyond the seashore. It's also a landscape as flawed, vulnerable and vengeful as any human. Once its fragile peace is shattered, the locals' anxiety fuels a string of speculations about happened to the women - and who might be...
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