The Disappearances of Madalena Grimaldi
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Publisher Description
From the author of the bestselling Lambs of God.
It is the start of a long, hot summer and Madalena Grimaldi has disappeared. Claudia is hired to find the missing schoolgirl but she's already working on a case - the death of Guy Valentine, her father.
As Claudia searches the streets, looking for the ghost of her derelict father and for the mysterious man who can lead her to Madalena, she finds herself sinking into a world where, for many, rock bottom is only the beginning.
'A marvel of subtle construction, Day's narrative has a lovely swoop, like a fall from grace, as Claudia confronts the inescapable, often destructive hold of the past. She creates a haunting atmosphere of restless searching and drifting, heightened by an underlying tone of dread.' - The Australian
'Tough, modern and thoughtful.' - Daily Telegraph, London
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Shamus Award-winner Day (The Last Tango of Dolores Delgado) delivers the American debut of Claudia Valentine, a gutsy, compassionate PI in Sydney, Australia. Claudia is hired by Rosa Grimaldi to find her 15-year-old daughter, Madalena, who ran away after a fight with her father. Soon, Claudia is knee-deep in the shadowy underground world of teenage runaways and throw-aways. Meanwhile, Claudia's mother tells her, for the first time, that her alcoholic former husband, Claudia's father who abandoned them 30 years earlier, died in 1985. Living above a pub, divorced Claudia is visited by her two teenage children, whose questions about the grandfather they never met prompt Claudia to probe his life and death. As Claudia's investigations unearth secrets in both her father's past and the Grimaldi (and Valentine) present, Sydney is besieged by bushfires. Day's good-natured, flawed heroine is a compelling tour guide, leading readers to spots in and around and under Sydney not likely to be found in regulation tours.
