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The Girl Who Didn't Come Home
Paperback
Publisher Price: $17.99
ISBN13: 9781764542586
Publisher: Camden Books Publishing
Published: Sep 1 2026
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Mallard W. Benson thought retirement would be simple: early runs, awful coffee, and the quiet hum of a small private investigation agency above a bakery.
Then Evan Harrow walks through his door.
Nearly thirty years ago, Evan's twelve-year-old sister Lily vanished on her walk home from school. Mallard was a rookie cop on the case then-eager, idealistic, and powerless to stop the investigation from going cold.
The file was closed, and the family never received an answer.
Now the police have given up for good. Evan hasn't. And neither has Mallard.
With the help of his sharp-witted assistant Donna Fletcher-a single mum juggling case files and a six-year-old tornado named Becky-Mallard pulls at threads everyone else ignored: hidden letters from a mysterious H, a sealed basement room beneath a primary school, a wealthy benefactor with immaculate suits and filthy secrets, and a supervising sergeant who buried more than evidence.
As witnesses talk and old ghosts stir, Mallard finds himself in the crosshairs of people who have spent decades staying untouchable.
Tyres are slashed. Offices are ransacked. Someone quietly approaches Becky at school.
The message is clear: drop it, or they won't just tidy up his files.
But Mallard has lived with the guilt of failing Lily Harrow for too long. With Donna and Becky increasingly tangled in the danger, he pushes forward-into police corruption no one wants uncovered and a predator who wasn't working alone.
The Girl Who Didn't Come Home is a gripping Australian crime novel about the cases that never let go, the cost of telling the truth, and the found family you'd burn the world to protect.
And when an anonymous tip hints that Lily's story is only one part of something much darker, Mallard realises this isn't the end of the investigation.
It's the beginning of a war.
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