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From the bestselling author of With Our Blessing and The Confession comes a gripping new mystery

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From the bestselling author of With Our Blessing and The Confession comes a gripping and chilling new mystery

´Horrifyingly dark . . . a deeply satisfying read´ - Sunday Times

Christmas day, and DCI Tom Reynolds receives an alarming call. A mass grave has been discovered on Oileán na Caillte, the island which housed the controversial psychiatric institution St. Christina´s. The hospital has been closed for decades and onsite graves were tragically common. Reynolds thinks his adversarial boss is handing him a cold case to sideline him.

But then it transpires another body has been discovered amongst the dead - one of the doctors who went missing from the hospital in mysterious circumstances forty years ago. He appears to have been brutally murdered.

As events take a sudden turn, nothing can prepare Reynolds and his team for what they are about to discover once they arrive on the island . . .

´Deft plotting and expert handling of tension make for an intelligent mystery´ - The Guardian

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Deft plotting and expert handling of tension make for an intelligent mystery The Guardian

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Spain, Jo
Jo Spain is a full-time writer and screenwriter. Her first novel, With Our Blessing, was one of seven books shortlisted in the Richard and Judy Search for a Bestseller competition and her first psychological thriller, The Confession, was a number one bestseller in Ireland. Jo co-wrote the ground-breaking television series Taken Down, which first broadcast in Ireland in 2018. She´s now working on multiple European television projects. Jo lives in Dublin with her husband and their four young children.

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