03202cam a2200493 i 4500 765122283 TxAuBib 20230420120000.0 230316s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780063020894 hardcover $32.00 0063020890 hardcover $32.00 (OCoLC)1373207855 TxAuBib rda Morton, Kate, author. Homecoming : a novel / Kate Morton. First US edition. New York : Mariner Books, [2023] 547 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Called home to care for her grandmother after a fall, Jess, a journalist, discovers a book chronicling the police investigation into an old unsolved murder that has a shocking connection to her family. "The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Clockmaker's Daughter, a sweeping novel that begins with a shocking crime, the effects of which echo across continents and generations. Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia. Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Having lived and worked in London for two decades, she now finds herself unemployed and struggling to make ends meet. A phone call out of nowhere summons her back to Sydney, where her beloved grandmother Nora, who raised Jess when her mother could not, has suffered a fall and is seriously ill in the hospital. At Nora's house, Jess discovers a true crime book chronicling a long-buried police case: the Turner Family Tragedy of 1959. It is only when Jess skims through its pages that she finds a shocking connection between her own family and this notorious event -- a mystery that has never been satisfactorily resolved. An epic story that spans generations, Homecoming asks what we would do for those we love, how we protect the lies we tell, and what it means to come home. Above all, it is an intricate and spellbinding novel from one of the finest writers working today" -- Provided by publisher. 20230420. Women journalists Fiction. Grandmothers Fiction. Murder Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Cold cases (Criminal investigation) Fiction. Homecoming Fiction. Grandmothers. Murder. Women journalists. Thrillers (Fiction). . Sydney (N.S.W.) Fiction. New South Wales Sydney. Detective and mystery fiction. Domestic fiction. Novels. Detective and mystery fiction. Fiction. Novels. Thrillers (Fiction.)