‘Broome Enigma’ is a multi-layered love story set in Broome in Outback Australia in the 1980s.
On a working holiday in Australia's cosmopolitan Outback town of Broome in 1986, Jodie, a young book designer and artist is open to romance and adventure. At the holiday village where she is staying, she meets Joe, a young man who works there. Despite the strong attraction between them, the many unknowns about his earlier life keep them apart.
To try to uncover his mysterious past, they travel to Perth and back to Broome and are drawn into not only bizarre but also dangerous situations. Is Joe the person she thinks he is, or is he some alter ego? Can Jodie and Joe stop their relationship from developing until they have answers and know if he is free to love her?
Apart from their own personal problems with coming to terms with a strong attraction which might lead nowhere, Jodie and Joe come up up against serious situations, involving dangerous adversaries.
To say much more introduces spoilers. However, numerous readers say it is a page-turner with the many twists and turns in the plot and with trying to work out who can be trusted and who can’t. One reader also wrote, “Just as well … [for the ending] as the sexual tension had built up unbearably!!”
Indigenous Themes
Romantic Suspense, 1980s setting, Broome, Outback, Kimberley, Travel, Australian Historical, Family Relationships, Multicultural Society, Love
About The Author
Meryl Tobin, writing name Meryl Brown Tobin, is an Australian writer of short and long fiction for adults and children, non-fiction, especially on travel and the environment, poetry and educational puzzles.
She has had 22 books published. These include puzzle/activity books, black-line masters books of educational puzzles, workbooks for primary students, a travel book, a children’s picture storybook, a poetry collection and a haiku collection with four other poets of The Society of Women Writers Victoria. She has also edited one book and co-edited two others.
In total, nearly 300,000 copies of her first four puzzle books, which were published by Ashton Scholastic, were sold in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Hundreds of her poems, puzzles, short stories and travel and other articles, and some cartoons and comic strips have appeared in more than 150 magazines, newspapers and anthologies in Australia and overseas, including India, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, the United Kingdom and the USA.
Some of her stories and poems have been broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Commission and other radio stations while others have been published on the Internet. As a guest on the set of Ch7’s children’s program The Book Place, she read her story LEFTY with regular presenter, Lynn Weston.
