THE CRYING STONES [The Lucinda Legacy]

By: Robert Mitchell

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

DIAMONDS – EIGHT MILLION DOLLAR’S WORTH. ARE THEY STILL WAITING IN THEIR SECRET PLACE?

It was the Japanese Zeroes which brought terror and death and destruction to the peaceful pearling town of Broome in 1942. It was the partners on the pearl lugger Lucinda who found the lone aircraft shot down by the Zeros, and the diamonds. It was the diamonds which viciously dissolved that partnership and allowed themselves to be hidden in the secret place. And now the sons of those partners each race to claim those diamonds, the crying stones. With mistrust fighting hate and with anger curbed by greed, the sons race across the great dry continent of Australia towards their legacy, towards Broome. But only one can win the prize. Do the stones still weep for the dead and for those soon to be dead?

Under its original title (The Lucinda Legacy) The Crying Stones was a winner in the Courier-Mail Bicentennial Novel Competition, the official literary competition which celebrated Australia’s Bicentennial.

“A violent, doom-laden thriller. Well above library standard”
Professor Ken Goodwin, English Department, Queensland University

“As good as the best of Wilbur Smith.”
Sir Theodore Bray, Former Editor-in-Chief, Queensland Newspapers