A tranquil summer holiday spot on Tasmania's east coast has it's peace shattered when a young woman is found dead just twelve months after another girl went missing. Gee interweaves the lives of her characters bringing their alliances and disputes to a simmering tension in the hot summer.
Sarah Avery is escaping failure in her relationship and her work and becomes obsessed with the girls' fates. Journalist Hall Flynn tackles the task of making sense of the story strands, while also trying to develop an understanding with Sarah.
Poppy Gee's first novel builds the suspense and tension as different groups propose suspects and start taking the law into their own hands.
Citation: Gee, Poppy Bay of Fires London : Headline, 2013.
ISBN: 978 0 7553 8784 7
LINC Tasmania catalogue record for "Bay of Fires"
