The Noon Lady of Towitta

<p>Bertha Schippan beautiful but headstrong daughter of a Wendish-German family is murdered on New Year's Day 1902.<br /><br />A posse of Adelaide police arrive at the family's lonely Murray Flats farm thirty-six hours later but by the time an Aboriginal tracker can start his work a gale has blown all clues away. An inquest sends her elder sister Mary to trial. But why would she kill Bertha when everyone knew them as loving companions?<br /><br /><em>The Noon Lady of Towitta</em> a novel based on real events entwines fact and folktale to delve into the secrets of a family haunted by its past and ruled by a devout and tyrannical father.<br /> </p>