Deep Water

by Elaine Forrestal

‘I’m sure I heard it,’ I said. ‘It’s Axle, howling.‘
’Axle’s gone, Tori.’ My uncle shoved his secateurs in the back pocket of his baggy trousers. ‘I know it’s hard,’ he said. ‘Especially when we’ve never found his body.’
But Tori has heard a dog howling. Did he imagine it? Is it, as his cousin Bronte believes, Axle’s ghost? Or could Axle be alive, after all?
Flood strikes the idyllic vineyard property of Eden Glassie, and the raging river sweeps away the family’s dogs. All are returned except Axle, Tori’s bea­gle. But a dog sounding like Axle can be heard howling from the other side of the swollen river. Tori risks a midnight swim across to find his dog, but instead finds something much more troubling and sinister…
Deep Water is the first in the exciting series of mysteries set on the vineyard property of Eden Glassie.

132 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Elaine Forrestal is a full-time writer who lives and works in Scarborough, Western Australia. She grew up in the Wheatbelt but now travels all over the world, and has spoken at festivals and presented writing workshops in Australia, Singapore, France, Italy, and Ireland. Elaine has had novels, picture books, magazine articles and short stories published in Australia, the USA and the UK. Her novel, Someone Like Me, which won the CBCA Book of the Year Award, the WAYRBA Hoffman Award and was commended for the NASAN Book and Software Awards in the UK, has been translated into Slovenian and Italian. She has also written for children’s television. Of her 17 published fiction titles, 14 have been shortlisted for, or won, major awards.