| ISBN |
9781460753217 (paperback) |
| Name |
French, Jackie author. |
| Title |
The last dingo summer / Jackie French. |
| Published |
Sydney, NSW : Angus & Robertson, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018. |
| ©2018. |
| Description |
323 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
"Ancient secrets can be deadly..." -- Cover. |
| "Tonight as the moon bounces above the ridge, I will hear the dingo hoel again." -- Cover. |
| Summary |
A body has been found in the burned-out wreckage of the church at Gibber's Creek with older skeletons lying beneath it. The corpse is identified as that of Ignatius Mervyn, the man who attempted to kill Jed Kelly and her unborn child. Newcomer Fish Johnstone is drawn into the murder investigation, convinced that the local police are on the wrong track with their enquiries. But as she digs beneath the warm and welcoming surface of the Gibber's Creek community, more secrets emerge. Fish must also face her own mystery - the sudden reappearance and then disappearance of her father, a Vietnamese refugee she never knew. As the last dingo howls on the hills above the river, Fish finds that Gibber's Creek has many secrets. And some of them are deadly. |
| Target audience note |
Adolescent. |
| Reading Program Note |
Premier's Reading Challenge 7-9. |
| Subjects |
Murder -- Investigation -- Juvenile fiction |
| Vietnamese -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction |
| Refugees -- Juvenile fiction |
| Secrecy -- Juvenile fiction |
| Country life -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction |
| Nineteen seventies -- Juvenile fiction |
| Australian fiction |
| Youth fiction |
| Premier's Reading Challenge 7-9 |
| Genre |
Historical fiction |
| Detective and mystery fiction |
| Series |
Matilda saga 08. |
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