Second Sight by Aoife Clifford

When Eliza Carmody was a teenager, she left her small town of Kinsale to go to boarding school. Since then, she's become a successful lawyer in the city, but has remained estranged from her family. Eliza, though, returns to Kinsale to meet an expert for a case. While there, Eliza witnesses a violent assault. This act plunges Eliza into the dynamics of Kinsale, a town still recovering from a bushfire that killed several residents two years ago. It also causes her to think about the summer she was sixteen, when one of her best friends, Grace, disappeared. Second Sight explores Eliza's search for the truth about the cause of the fire, the reason behind the assault, and who was responsible for what happened to Grace, all amid the backdrop of a small Australian town. Aoife Clifford has written a novel similar to Jane Harper and Julia Keller's Bell Elkin's mysteries.