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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…

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…

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.

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.

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.