Ash Harrier: The Strange Sighting (Pantera Press 2024)
The third volume of one of my favorite Australian series.
Alice England lives with her father, who runs a funeral home. Her friends are also eccentric, in their own way: Violet is allergic to sunlight, and Cal is a really bad student. Alice has a special ability that allows her to contact the personal belongings of the recently deceased and get to know them better. Being a big fan of scientific facts, she definitely wants to find some logical explanation for this oddity. The trio has already managed to solve two mysteries together before and it looks like they are dealing with another strange case now.
After a busy summer, the school year begins at Damocles Cove. Cal is visited by his cousin from Korea, who is thirsty for adventure. Meanwhile, a strange legend is coming to life in the seaside town. Does it have something to do with the death of a famous marine biologist? And it is interesting that he also had a twin brother… The atmosphere of this volume is closer to the gloom of the first one and now, we can learn more about Alice’s family heritage. I really liked the story and I hope there will be a continuation to it.
Ash Harrier lives in Western Australia, where she is an ambassador for a charity that helps disadvantaged children create their own home library. She is obsessed with puzzles, scientific facts, birds and the smell of tea, her favorite pastimes are reading, daydreaming and spending time in the garden. The idea for her first novel came to her when she was waiting for her daughter in front of school and saw a red-haired girl walking alone. She became Alice. Three volumes of the series have already been published in Australia and the first book was published in Europe this year.
