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Thirteen year old Morris Turner and his big sister Lottie lived with their father, Jude, a detective in Melbourne. It was 1930 and things were tight. When Jude heard of a young woman being murdered in his old home town of Gemini, he was asked to investigate. And with polio cases on the rise, Jude took the small family of three and headed to Gemini, never realising how their lives would change. They stayed in the small cottage beside the big house on the property Jude had lived with his parents a
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“The way I figure it, a murder is like a star system forming. People get pulled into orbit around it. They circle the crime, side by side, everyone moving around and around that terrible thing. They can’t help it. We’re about to fall into orbit around Catherine Fletcher, I know it. “
Thirteen-year-old Morris and his older sister, Lottie (Charlotte), are the children of Police Detective Jude Turner, a widower. He has received a phone call about a murder in his old hometown of Gemini Falls, and a ...more
“The way I figure it, a murder is like a star system forming. People get pulled into orbit around it. They circle the crime, side by side, everyone moving around and around that terrible thing. They can’t help it. We’re about to fall into orbit around Catherine Fletcher, I know it. “
Thirteen-year-old Morris and his older sister, Lottie (Charlotte), are the children of Police Detective Jude Turner, a widower. He has received a phone call about a murder in his old hometown of Gemini Falls, and a ...more
This is a fabulous story set in 1930 the time of the depression, things were hard for many people, Detective Jude Turner lives in Melbourne with his daughter Lottie and son Morris, when a young girl is murdered in his home town of Gemini he Is sent to investigate, this means moving his family back to the town he left many years ago never to return.
Gemini is a small country coal town, young Morris who is thirteen doesn’t know much about it as his father will not talk about it or his mother who di ...more
Gemini is a small country coal town, young Morris who is thirteen doesn’t know much about it as his father will not talk about it or his mother who di ...more
Melbourne, 1930, at the start of the Great Depression. Thirteen-year-old Morris Turner and his sister, Lottie, followed his detached father Jude, a detective, to his childhood town for his latest assignment, a murder case. Morris met his estranged family; an aunt, an uncle and a cousin obsessed with detective novels. With polio case rising and financial crash approaching, Morris turned his attention to the town mysteries and finding the killer, while learning to grow up at the same time.
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