Blogs in July 2024

Lasting Influence 23rd July 2024

A kidnap, a murder, and a very tricky situation for a tough female detective… Detective Chief Inspector Gawn Girvin is called back from extended leave when a social media influencer couple goes missing on the Northern Ireland coast. One...

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Casual Cruelties 18th October 2023

She wants to escape the prison of her marriage—but after decades of mind games, does she have the strength to break free? Fifty-three, long married, and in the throes of menopause, Laura is dismayed. She’s always tolerated her journalist...

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Kala 14th July 2023

In the seaside town of Kinlough, on Ireland’s west coast, three old friends are thrown together for the first time in years. They—Helen, Joe and Mush—were part of an original group of six inseparable teenagers in the summer of...

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Close to Home 21st April 2023

Luminous and devastating, a portrait of modern masculinity as shaped by class, by trauma, and by silence, but also by the courage to love and to survive Sean’s brother Anthony is a hard man. When they were kids their...

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Murder on the Table 1st December 2022

A sudden death turns a charity bash into chaos When DCI Gawn Girvin is invited to attend a gala dinner for Belfast’s great and good, little does she know it will mark the beginning of a new multiple murder...

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