Lowbridge by Lucy Campbell

Katherine moves to her husband Jamie's hometown of Lowbridge, a small community about an hour outside of Sydney, after their teenage daughter Maggie's death. Katherine is devastated by Maggie's passing and is numbing her grief with pills and alcohol. Katherine and Jamie are also drifting apart as a couple. One day, Katherine happens upon the Lowbridge Historical Society. Eventually, volunteering there starts to help her to heal. When Katherine decides to organize an exhibition about the history of the women's center that opened thirty years ago, she discovers articles about teenager Tess Dawes who went missing around that time. Katherine becomes interested in Tess' story, much to the dismay of Jamie. In an alternating storyline, the reader is taken back to 1986 to get a firsthand look at Tess and her friends Sim and Luisa. Will Katherine be able to find out what happened to Tess all those years ago? Lowbridge is a great read-alike for the novels of Christian White and Silence by Susan Allott.