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Verbeek, Miriam

 
9780648885481: The Forest: Crime and corruption in Australian timber
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ISBN 10 : 0648885488 ISBN 13 : 9780648885481
Editeur : Miriam Verbeek, 2023

Synopsis

  • First Place (Mystery and Mayhem) and Finalist (Thriller and Suspense Fiction) - Chanticleer International Book Awards - 2024)
  • London Book Festival Award (2024)

When the heiress of a business enterprise hires IFS to restructure the business, a diminutive systems expert must untangle false invoice, hidden labs and family loyalties before the cartel that uses the company for smuggling silences her and destroys a town.

Saskia van Essen arrives at Woodgrove to help work with the heir, Peter, to restructure a family timber business, Rowland Enterprises. Small in stature but vast in skills – finance and systems – Saskia's an outsider welcomed into a family that believes in stewardship of its forest, its employees and its township. She expects paperwork and community meetings.

What she finds is darker: invoices for furniture that never existed, shipments of timber that don't match their declared origin, and a bypassed IT system whose vanished files point to deliberate erasure. As Saskia methodically maps people, money and forest lots, her presence disturbs the crime underbelly that's infected the business and the timber town.

Pushed to act by a horrific discovery that almost ends her life, Saskia must act quickly to unveil the truth without destroying the community she's come to admire.

How can Saskia force the truth to the surface when loyalty, blood and profit are braided together?


***** OnLineBookClub review - The central characters in this book are so easy to love and connect to ... The author has a remarkable ability to capture the reader's attention. Her ability to describe scenes engagingly and arouse curiosity contributes to the factors that make this book difficult to put down.

***** Prairies Book review - Verbeek expertly challenges the reader's assumptions and creates a puzzling mystery ... Atmospheric and thoroughly engaging.

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À propos de l'auteur

Miriam Verbeek was born to Dutch parents in Bandung, Indonesia in 1954 and migrated to Australia as a child. Throughout a career in academia and management consulting, she advocated for environmental and humanitarian causes. She's a mother, homemaker, nature lover and bushwalker and lives with her partner on the east coast of Australia.

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Éditeur
Miriam Verbeek
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0648885488
ISBN 13 
9780648885481
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
280
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