Why a Booktrail?
2025: He had been here, that was clear from the marks in the dust. And he had been alone.
Last One Out
What you need to know before your trail
In a dying town, Ro Crowley waits for her son on the evening of his twenty-first birthday.
Sam never comes home. His footprints in the dust of three abandoned houses offer the only clue to his final movements. One set in. One set out.
Five long years later, Ro returns to Carralon Ridge for the annual memorial of Sam’s disappearance. The skeletal community is now an echo of itself, having fractured under the pressure of the coal mine operating on its outskirts.
But Ro still wants answers. Only a few people remain. If the truth is to be found in that town, does it lie among them?
Locations
Reset- Australia - New South Wales
- A: Lightning Ridge
- B: Peak Hill
- C: Yerranderie Private Town
Travel Guide
Carralon Ridge – NSW
“Monstrous and vast, it dwarfed the trees and buildings dotted around its perimeter. It had been carved out by layer after layer dug into the ground, oddly reminiscent of a terraced farm, but every level a variant shade of black. There were two distinct quarries, one more than twice the size of the other. At the bottom of each, a lake of water pooled murky and grey.”
It’s very remote and is a dying place – not just in the mines but the people themselves.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Last One Out
Destination/Location: NSW, “Carralon Ridge ” Author: Jane Harper Departure: 2025
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