The Fossil Hunter
- ISBN-10
- 1400237971
- ISBN-13
- 9781400237975
- Series
- The Fossil Hunter
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 401
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2022-08-09
- Publisher
- Harper Muse
- Author
- Tea Cooper
Description
Buried secrets. An ancient fossil. And one woman’s determination to unravel a nineteenth-century mystery. Australia, 1847. The last thing Mellie Vale remembers before the fever takes her is sprinting through the bush with a monster at her heels—but no one believes her. In a bid to curb Mellie’s overactive imagination, her benefactors send her to visit a family friend, Anthea Winstanley. Anthea is an amateur paleontologist convinced she will one day find proof that great sea dragons swam in the vast inland sea that covered her property millions of years ago. Mellie is instantly swept up in the dream. 1919. Penelope Jane Martindale arrives home from the battlefields of World War I intent on making peace with her father and commemorating the deaths of her two younger brothers in the trenches. Her reception is disappointing. Desperate for a distraction, she finds a connection between a fossil at London’s Natural History Museum and her brothers’ favorite camping spot—also the last place they were seen before falsifying their ages to join the army. But the gorge has a sinister reputation: seventy years ago, several girls disappeared from the area. So when P. J. uncovers some unexpected remains, the past seems to be reaching into the present. She’s determined to find answers about what happened all those years ago . . . and perhaps some closure on the loss of her brothers. USA TODAY bestselling and Daphne du Maurier award-winning author Full-length historical mystery Stand-alone novel Includes discussion questions for book clubs
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- 2022-01-25
- 112 pages
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- 2009-10-13
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- 256 pages
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