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The Ghost Train and the Scarlet Moon

by Jack Roney

A Queensland mystery across two eras

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A Queensland mystery across two eras

Set around Labour Day in 1982 and 2017, the novel links the disappearances of two friends to the Camp Mountain train crash and a rare lunar event. Toby McIntyre searches for answers across a 35-year divide, following clues that connect the forgotten ghost train, the disaster and the past. Queensland’s railway history and the time-bending mystery are woven together, giving the story both a specific historical anchor and a speculative premise.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in speculative fiction.
  • Readers who enjoy mysteries involving disappearances and clues that connect different periods.
  • Readers curious about Queensland history and railway disasters.

Themes

Friendship and disappearanceMemory and unresolved historyTime and changing the pastQueensland railway history

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Book overview

Three friends. Two disappearances. Thirty-five years apart. To uncover the truth, Toby must unravel a time-bending mystery that leads back to Queensland's worst train crash.

 

Labour Day 1982 - a 'super-blue-blood-moon' looms high in the sky, thirty-five years since it last appeared. Three boys set out on an adventure, exploring the trail of a ghost train long since forgotten. It is also the 35th anniversary of the Camp Mountain train crash, Queensland's worst rail disaster, which claimed the lives of sixteen people and seriously injured many others. One of the boys vanishes without a trace.

 

Suspicion lingers. Friendships shatter. Lives are ruined. Years go by. The story fades.

 

A retired detective never forgets.

 

Labour Day, 2017 - another of the trio goes missing in baffling circumstances. Left behind and searching for answers, Toby McIntyre sets out to uncover the truth behind the disappearances of his two best friends, exactly thirty-five years apart to the day. The train crash and the rare lunar event are somehow connected and reveal clues to solve the mystery. An unlikely link to the past holds the key.

 

Toby must sacrifice everything for a chance to be reunited with his friends and to change the course of history.

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