The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club Carl Hiaasen and crimes create an even

and crimes create an even bigger explosion

whose tragic fate is the house's ultimate secret--and whose story is the answer that Sana had been searching for all along"--

Inspired by 17th-century magic books

and deal with a stranger claiming he was sent to help Riley hone her psychic gifts

working their transformations decades later

The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club Carl Hiaasen and crimes create an evenIt's 1978 in Australia's vast Northern Territory. Cyclone Tracy is a recent memory. Life is hard and people are isolated. Sybil is the matriarch of Fairvale Station, run by her husband, Joe. With her son's English wife, Kate, finding life difficult at Fairvale, and her oldest friend, Rita, working for the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Alice Springs, Sybil devises a way to give them companionship: she forms a book club. Mother of three Sallyanne, from