UNCOVER THE VERY BEST IN CRIME AND THRILLER WRITING
A gripping thriller you won’t be able to put down, perfect for fans of SUSIE STEINER and CLARE MACKINTOSH
‘SO enjoyable. Great characterisation… tense, grippy plot. An EXCELLENT read!’ MARIAN KEYES
How could your good friend become your worst enemy?
Being held hostage at gunpoint by her childhood friend is not Dr Heather Gilmore’s idea of a good day at work. It only gets worse when she hears that her nineteen-year-old daughter Leah has been kidnapped.
Sergeant Claire Boyle wasn’t expecting to get caught up in a hostage situation during a doctor’s appointment. When it becomes apparent that the kidnapping is somehow linked to the hostage-taker, a woman called Eileen Delaney, she is put in charge of finding the missing girl.
What happened between Eileen and Heather to make Eileen so determined to ruin her old friend? Claire Boyle must dig up the secrets from their pasts to find out – and quickly, because Leah is still missing, and time is running out to save her.
‘SO enjoyable. Great characterisation… tense, grippy plot. An EXCELLENT read!’ MARIAN KEYES
How could your good friend become your worst enemy?
Being held hostage at gunpoint by her childhood friend is not Dr Heather Gilmore’s idea of a good day at work. It only gets worse when she hears that her nineteen-year-old daughter Leah has been kidnapped.
Sergeant Claire Boyle wasn’t expecting to get caught up in a hostage situation during a doctor’s appointment. When it becomes apparent that the kidnapping is somehow linked to the hostage-taker, a woman called Eileen Delaney, she is put in charge of finding the missing girl.
What happened between Eileen and Heather to make Eileen so determined to ruin her old friend? Claire Boyle must dig up the secrets from their pasts to find out – and quickly, because Leah is still missing, and time is running out to save her.
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Reviews
A compulsively readable thriller [and] an absorbing variation on the "domestic noir" genre
A crackingly-paced thriller, featuring a totally believable female detective
Crowley has created a new twist to the crime-writing genre
Brilliantly original and genuinely scary
A gripping, fast-paced tale
Chilling, riveting and brilliantly written, you'll be up reading this way into the night
Believable characters combined with escalating tension make this an edge-of-your-seat read
Disturbing and emotional . . . I loved this book
Gripping and twisty and unputdownable - highly recommended
A brilliant twisty claustrophobic ride of a book
[Her] best one yet
Sensationally good
Races along at a blistering pace
Does not disappoint for a second . . . Brilliantly plotted and structured, I gasped aloud as I watched the unfolding story of childhood pals becoming mortal enemies . . . This is a corker of a book, compellingly readable, intriguing and hugely enjoyable
A perfectly engineered crime novel where slow-burning grievances lead to explosive actions. Crowley is brilliant at creating gripping scenarios that make your heart beat faster
Extremely well-structured and brilliantly paced . . . cements Sinead Crowley's status as one of Ireland's best crime writers
So enjoyable. Great characterisation, social commentary and a tense, grippy plot. An excellent read