The Lost Swimmer will make you question who you can really trust… Rebecca is a professor at a local Australian uni, and is under increasing pressure to answer questions about spending and missing funds in her department. What's more, she suspects her husband is having an affair with her boss, and she doesn't quite know who to trust anymore... While trying to uncover the truth and save her marriage, Rebecca travels to Europe with her husband, but then one day he disappears under suspicious and tragic circumstances… You won't know who to trust or believe in this intriguing mystery until the very last pages. The Lost Swimmer had me guessing until the very end (I couldn't pick it!). A great read for lovers of Aussie fiction, crime and mystery.

The Lost Swimmer is a rich thriller with an intriguing plot and authentic Australian narrative.
Rebecca is a professor at a struggling university, where staff and budget cuts are occurring throughout the faculties. Attempting to maintain her integrity to her staff and deliver quality programs to students, Rebecca finds herself at loggerheads with Priscilla, the head of department.

Whilst her husband Stephen works at the university in a similar role, there’s a lack of connection between the two that makes speaking about her trysts at work difficult. Stephen waves her off and doesn’t engage in the conversations surrounding the office politics.

When matters at work become even harder to bear than usual, and blame is heaped upon Rebecca for errors she knows she didn’t make, she begins to consider her rival Priscilla more closely. A wifes intuition tells her that there’s more going on between her husband and Priscilla than she knows at this point in time.

Her job takes her around the world for conferences, and whilst she tries to unravel the mess at work, she’s also trying to patch up her marriage. However as she digs deeper, she realizes that maybe the two are more related than she could have ever expected. Has Stephen committed the ultimate betrayal?

With a powerful prose and majestic Australian setting, “The Lost Swimmer” takes you on a fascinating journey that has you questioning who Rebecca can trust, and where the guilt truly lies.