Inge, o adolescenta de 16 ani proaspat impliniti, traieste intr-o familie nemteasca clasica, unde chiar si dupa atatia ani de la terminarea razboiului, portretul lui Hitler troneaza la loc de cinste in biroul parintilor ei. Din acest motiv, aceasta este nevoita sa le ascunda parintilor relatia pe care o are de 3 ani cu iubitul ei de origine evreiasca. More serious attempts have been rarer. The greatest successes have been those, like Charles Chauvel's 1950s classic Jedda, and Bruce Beresford's gritty 1980s film The Fringe Dwellers, which have dropped the mysticism and the mateyness in favour of a clear-eyed look at the political reality of race in Australia. Then the body of a young woman is found dead by suffocation and Kim makes two chilling discoveries. The victim spent time at the clinic too, and her death was also staged to look like a suicide. And don't get me started on her relationship with her boyfriend whom she seems to have completely hidden from her parents, yet at one pint in the book they were talking on the telephone every night!

OMG where on earth am I meant to be able to start with this…This book was everything I wanted it to be and more.’ Rachel’s Random Reads, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ And I also really like the relationship Inge has with Marta’s mother. But that was about all I really liked about the book. Genius… utterly compelling… will have you gripped to the end… comes with the mother of all twists!’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Such deep-rooted racism managed to taint even the character of benevolence, says Robert Manne, an expert on the stolen generations at La Trobe University. "None of the people involved were openly hostile to Aborigines," he says. "There were quite a lot of very decent people who genuinely thought what they were doing was for the best. They didn't think Aborigines were fully human, so they didn't think that they would suffer as much."

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However, there were far too many things that didn't make sense or were too far fetched. How did this girl manage to keep her boyfriend a secret from her parents for 3 years when everyone at her school knew? How did her brother know more about her adoptive parents than she did when he was supposedly just 6 years old when she was snatched? How did her mother know her boyfriend was Jewish when the author clearly stated earlier in the book he wasn't of traditional Jewish appearance?

Paired with the equally troubled Detective Travis, D.I Kim Stone discovers a sinister relationship between the families who own the land which has now become a crime scene. And when more sinister killings take place, Kim realizes that this is undoubtedly the work of a more ominous figure. When a second text message is however received, the two families find themselves fighting each other over the life of their children. Firstly, I found it quite hard to connect with Inge, there were points when I could understand and empathise, but most of the time I couldn’t.

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I wanted to give this book more than just 3 stars, I really did. It started off very promisingly, an emotional tale of a girl torn between two worlds. With only twenty-four hours to make every second of Steven’s interrogation count, and scan his behavior for hidden clues, Kim and her team soon link Steven to the abduction of several vulnerable girls – two were kept for a year and then released, unharmed – but where are Melody and the others? Part of the anger, according to Olsen, comes down to the fact that, unlike the frontier massacres, the stolen generations affected people living today. "The reaction didn't surprise me at all," she says. "The film was dangerous to people because it is demonstrably true. The two oldest girls are still alive. The documentation about why they were taken is still complete." Love all your books. Have just read Twisted Lies and am keen to read your next book in the Kim Stone series. Alex, the youngest, utterly refuses to face the brutality of her childhood. Instead, she finds comfort in liquor.