The Vanishing of Vivienne Cameron (Unabridged)
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $31.99
Publisher Description
FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE PODCAST EPISODE HOSTED BY THE AUTHOR
A murdered young woman; a missing wife; a forty-year mystery.
In 1986 on Phillip Island, a young woman called Beth Barnard was savagely murdered and her boyfriend’s wife, Vivienne Cameron, went missing. The police immediately jumped to what they thought was the obvious conclusion: in a jealous rage, Vivienne had killed Beth and then herself. Vivienne’s body was never found.
But Vikki Petraitis wasn’t convinced. The official line didn’t explain all the evidence, and it certainly didn’t seem like the behaviour of a mother with two small boys. Fascinated by both the case and the bias it revealed in investigators, Petraitis wrote her first true-crime book about the murder, with Paul Daley, and decades later made a podcast on the case. Both brought new evidence and testimony to light, and asked questions that were not asked at the time.
Now, to mark the fortieth anniversary of Beth’s murder and Vivienne’s vanishing, Petraitis brings together all her discoveries and true-crime experience in a brilliant forensic investigation into what happened all those years ago, and why.
Customer Reviews
Brilliantly written, carefully collated and valiantly advocated!
What an amazing book/audiobook to mark the 40th year that this devastating and haunting mystery has hung over the island, shrouded in secrecy and lies.
The author has an extraordinarily special way of seducing the reader/listener into the web of inconsistencies, new evidence and tunnel vision. I thought I knew this story already, but this book feels like a whole new story, with the familiar characters and devastating outcome.
This book is surely going to cause enough ripples in the pond to encourage law enforcement and the coroner to reopen a case that deserves a proper ending, not the convenient and easy one that has been provided to the families and the community.
I will be reading/listening and re-reading/re-listening to this book for many years to come, I am sure of it.
It’s like nothing I have ever read before, it’s truly exceptional!