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From the bestselling author of With Our Blessing and The Confession comes a gripping investigative thriller of class, privilege and revenge.
Kids can be so cruel.
They'll call you names.
Hurt your feelings.
Push you to your death.
In the garden of an abandoned house, Luke Connolly lies broken, dead. The night before, he and his friends partied inside. Nobody fought, everybody else went home safely. And yet, Luke was raped and pushed to his death. His alleged attacker is now in custody.
DCI Tom Reynolds is receiving the biggest promotion of his career when a colleague asks him to look at the Connolly case, believing it's not as cut and dried as local investigators have made out. And as Tom begins to examine the world Connolly and his upper class friends inhabited, the privilege and protection afforded to them, he too realises something.
In this place, people cover up for each other. Even when it comes to murder.

As he scanned the glade, his stomach lurched. One, two, three, four. Five, counting the mound of earth disturbed under the tent. Somebody had cleared the earth of its natural layer and sown their own flowers. In five places.
Five graves.
A young woman, Fiona Holland, has gone missing from a small Irish village. A search is mounted, but there are whispers. Fiona had a wild reputation. Was she abducted, or has she run away?
A week later, a gruesome discovery is made in the woods at Ireland’s most scenic beauty spot – the valley of Glendalough. The bodies are all young women who disappeared in recent years. D.I. Tom Reynolds and his team are faced with the toughest case of their careers – a serial killer, who hunts vulnerable women, and holds his victims captive before he ends their lives.
Soon the race is on to find Fiona Holland before it’s too late. . .

For one week, everything in Luke Miller's life is perfect. Surprised with a belated honeymoon by his wife, Rose, he's had seven days with her in a Caribbean paradise.
But then Rose confesses that on the day they left, a violent man from her past tracked her down and broke into their home. He wasn't expecting her to fight back. In her terror, Rose killed him. Now there's a dead body in his apartment, and only one person Luke can think to turn to.
Mickey never expected to hear from Luke again, not after he disappeared without warning. Mickey can't deny a woman who needs help. Luke trusts her to make sure Rose doesn't have to keep running.

Nobody was supposed to get out alive.
On a Dublin city street, packed with afternoon shoppers, a young woman appears, naked, traumatised and bearing burn marks.
Tom Reynolds, now Chief Superintendent, is no longer head of the murder squad. But when it transpires the woman escaped from a house fire started deliberately and that there are more victims, Tom is sucked in. What begins as a straightforward case of arson, soon becomes something much more sinister.
The people in that house never wanted to be there in the first place. Now more of them are missing. Tom is faced with a ticking clock as he tries to locate the others and as he does, a terrifying spider's web of domestic and international crime unfolds.
And not everybody will survive the fallout.

Пять лет назад ирландка Эрин Кеннеди переехала в Нью-Йорк и вскоре счастливо вышла замуж за Дэнни, полицейского детектива. Они живут в живописном приморском городке на Лонг-Айленде и наслаждаются обществом друг друга. Одна беда: Дэнни часто вызывают на работу в неурочное время.

И тем воскресным утром, открыв дверь коллегам мужа, Эрин испытывает раздражение — неужели им снова помешают отдохнуть? Но сам Дэнни, завидев копов, бросается на балкон и прыгает вниз с пятого этажа...
Восемнадцать месяцев спустя Эрин предстает перед судом по обвинению в убийстве мужа. За эти полтора года ей довелось узнать о Дэнни то, чего она даже представить себе не могла. Эрин думала, что он идеален. Она думала, что их жизнь идеальна.

Но идеальной оказалась только ложь.

В живописном уголке Ирландии, над белопенной бухтой, в прекрасном доме на холме, жили-были отец с матерью и шестеро детей: три сына и три дочери. Жили богато и счастливо, пока не исчез средний сын — будто сквозь землю провалился. Мать горя не пережила и до срока ушла в мир иной, а дети разъехались по миру. Но через десять лет пропавший сын вернулся в родное гнездо…

Nobody was supposed to get out alive.
On a Dublin city street, packed with afternoon shoppers, a young woman appears, naked, traumatised and bearing burn marks.
Tom Reynolds, now Chief Superintendent, is no longer head of the murder squad. But when it transpires the woman escaped from a house fire started deliberately and that there are more victims, Tom is sucked in. What begins as a straig

It's June 2008 and twenty-one-year-old Adam Lattimer vanishes, presumed dead. The strain of his disappearance breaks his already fragile family.
Ten years later, with his mother deceased and siblings scattered across the globe, Adam turns up unannounced at the family home. His siblings return reluctantly to Spanish Cove, but Adam's reappearance poses more questions than answers. The past is a tangled web of deceit.

And, as tension builds, it's apparent somebody has planned murderous revenge for the events of ten years ago.

У Оливии Коллинз чудесный коттедж в маленьком элитном поселке. Эта милая женщина так хочет наладить хорошие отношения с соседями: дружить, ходить в гости, изливать душу и помогать в беде.

Как же она ухитрилась со всеми перессориться? Наверное потому, что узнала грязные секреты и постыдные тайны своих внешне благопристойных соседей... И когда женщину находят убитой в собственном доме и полиция начинает расследование, выясняется, что ненавидят ее буквально все.

Этот психологический детектив с прекрасно проработанными персонажами сдобрен острой приправой из тайн, обманов, измен и мести, и поражает совершенно неожиданным финалом.

Death stalked the Vale.
In every corner, every whisper.
They just didn't know it yet.

Six neighbours, six secrets, six reasons to want Olive Collins dead.

In the exclusive gated community of Withered Vale, people's lives appear as perfect as their beautifully manicured lawns. Money, success, privilege - the residents have it all. Life is good.

There's just one problem.

Olive Collins' dead body has been rotting inside number four for the last three months. Her neighbours say they're shocked at the discovery but nobody thought to check on her when she vanished from sight.

The police start to ask questions and the seemingly flawless facade begins to crack. Because, when it comes to Olive's neighbours, it seems each of them has something to hide, something to lose and everything to gain from her death.

It's true what they say . . . revenge is sweet.
1975. A baby, minutes old, is forcibly taken from its devastated mother.

2010. The body of an elderly woman is found in a Dublin public park in the depths of winter.

Detective Inspector Tom Reynolds is working the case. He's convinced the murder is linked to historical events that took place in the notorious Magdalene Laundries.

Reynolds and his team follow the trail to an isolated convent in the Irish countryside. But once inside, it becomes disturbingly clear that the killer is amongst them . . . and is determined to exact further vengeance for the sins of the past.