The follow-up to Sarah Thornton \'s Lapse sees disgraced former lawyer Clementine Jones once again trying to outrun her past, this time on the on the shores of paradise--Queensland\'s Great Sandy Straits.
Her debut novel Lapse was published in 2019..
She took up writing novels as a way to liberate her imagination after 20 years in the structured confines of legal and corporate life.
She now lives with her husband aboard a 43-foot sailing catamaran, exploring this most magnificent blue planet and chasing an endless summer.
About author(s): Sarah Thornton cast off the lines to her law career not long after being awarded Australian Corporate Lawyer of the Year in 2016.
He\'s looking to get to the bottom of the murder, too, but for his own reasons...
Complicating matters further is Clem\'s mate Torrens, ex-con and reformed enforcer.
Clem steps in to try and solve this murder--but her own dark secret continues to put her in danger.
With conflicts between big business and the activists growing, and there are plenty of people with a motive.
She also knows she\'s the only one interested in tracking down the killer.
The police say suicide, but Clem\'s convinced it was murder.
When a body of an environmental activist is found at the base of a nearby quarry, Clem\'s world is turned upside down.
Bored with a house-sitting gig, Clementine becomes a reluctant recruit to the local environmental group, campaigning to save an endangered turtle as developers close in.
The follow-up to Sarah Thornton \'s Lapse sees disgraced former lawyer Clementine Jones once again trying to outrun her past, this time on the on the shores of paradise--Queensland\'s Great Sandy Straits