"Nothing much happens in Scorpion Falls. Not unless you count all those kids disappearing, hey?"
Theo Sumner is a 14 year-old living in the isolated and increasingly eerie Queensland mining town of Scorpion Falls. Following the arrival of Frank Maker, an unsettling guest at the Iguana Motel, teenagers start to go missing. As Theo and his girlfriend Ari look for answers, they are drawn ever deeper into the murky underbelly of his home town and a shocking nightmare encounter with the truth.
Scorpion Falls is a gripping YA chiller set in a spooky and claustrophobic, mining town called, you guessed it, Scorpion Falls. The name of the town is not accidental: this story is constructed with a real sting in the tale and a jolt at the end of every chapter.
An exciting, page-turning ride, the novel is thematically underpinned and enriched by several key classic texts which provided inspiration. Among those texts are the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, the legend of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. And, as with those key inspirations, Scorpion Fall's protagonist, Theo, undergoes a dizzying mental and physical ordeal before, finally, facing down his worst fears.
A darkly comedic, quasi-supernatural thriller which, while always entertaining, contains themes of alienation, racism, identity and mortality.
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An exciting, page-turning ride, the novel is thematically underpinned and enriched by several key classic texts which provided inspiration. Among those texts are the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, the legend of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. And, as with those key inspirations, Scorpion Fall's protagonist, Theo, undergoes a dizzying mental and physical ordeal before, finally, facing down his worst fears.
A darkly comedic, quasi-supernatural thriller which, while always entertaining, contains themes of alienation, racism, identity and mortality.
Order here: amazon.com.au
Click on the image below to watch the trailer for Scorpion Falls.