A Body in the Woodpile

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Do you ever really know anyone? Emma thought she did. But more than the victim's secrets are revealed this time.Emma is scrambling to fix the fallout from that old promise and free her friend Bea, trapped in her own expectations. But she is needed on the Mary B and leaves the problem in the hands of her sister-in-law Catherine hoping she won't come to regret that decision.When the woodcutter's wife is found dead at their timber lease and the woodcutter is missing, Emma and Daniel have no choice but to rescue their abandoned children. Their care is made easier with the help of a lively Jack Russell, but it is soon clear they are harbouring secrets of their own.Unfortunately, they aren't the only ones as Emma discovers being a woman in a man's world means much is being kept from her. Daniel insists she do her job regardless but then has the nerve to complain when she does just that. Emma's concern for the children eventually puts her in the path of the killer, and a letter from Catherine informs her some secrets are impossible to keep forever.Set on the Murray River in the 1870s when the paddle steamers' whistles could be heard day and night between Echuca and Goolwa.