Ghost Child - Caroline Overington
Category: Suspense
Narrator: Zindzi Okenyo
Tags: Suspense, Mystery
Caroline Overingtons stunning fiction debut is a multi-voiced novel centred around a childs death and its terrible repercussions. In 1982 Victorian police were called to a home on a housing estate an hour west of Melbourne. There, they found a five-year-old boy lying still and silent on the carpet. There were no obvious signs of trauma, but the child, Jacob, died the next day. The story made the headlines, and hundreds attended the funeral. Few people were surprised when the boys mother and her boyfriend went to prison for the crime. Police declared themselves satisfied with the result, saying there was no doubt that justice had been done. And yet, for years rumours swept the estate and clung like cobwebs to the long-vacant house: there had been a cover-up. The real perpetrator, at least according to local gossip, was the boys six-year-old sister, Lauren. Twenty years on, Lauren has created a new life for herself, but details of Jacobs death begin to resurface and the story again makes
