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#BookReview of #InPlainSight by @JosephCBirchall | @PoolbegBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne1st July 2025Leave a comment

‘She gazed at the red line that ran along the circumference of the woman’s neck, the laceration open slightly like a small crevice in the snow. The woman’s face was paler than her short blonde hair, her blue eyes frozen in a stare as if caught in a photograph. They stared away and behind Darcy…

#BookReview of #TheCountingGame by Sinéad Nolan

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne30th June 2025Leave a comment

Into the woods.Count to ten.Only one of us comes home again.– The Counting Game [ About The Counting Game ] 1995, Ireland. Panic grips the village of Drumsuin when a teenage girl goes missing in the nearby forest. Saoirse is not the first girl to disappear in those woods. And when it’s revealed she was…

#BookReview of #KANE by Graham Hurley | #Blogtour | @soph_ransompr

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne26th June 2025Leave a comment

One man at the heart of American power must undertake a crucial wartime spy mission that will take him into enemy territory before he even leaves US soil.– Kane [ About Kane ] Washington DC, 1941. Quincy Kane, hero of the Boston Police Department and scourge of organised crime, is now a Secret Service agent.…

#BookReview of #WeAreAllGuiltyHere by Karin Slaughter

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne16th June 2025Leave a comment

‘The next thrilling mystery from Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls and the Will Trent Series.‘– We Are All Guilty Here [ About We Are All Guilty Here ] Welcome to North Falls—a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think. Until the night of the fireworks. When two…

#BookReview of The One You Least Suspect by Brian McGilloway

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne10th June 2025Leave a comment

‘It began with Gail’s wedding, The one in the Oceanview Hotel in Moville. That was where they picked me up the first time.’ [ About The One You Least Suspect ] Katie lives a quiet life. She likes her small Derry neighbourhood. She likes her job as a barmaid at O’Reillys. And she loves her…

#BookReview of #DeathOfAnOfficer by Mark Ellis | @MarkEllis15

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne3rd June 2025Leave a comment

London. Spring 1943. While Europe continues to suffer under the iron fist of Nazi occupation, Britain remains battered but unbowed.’– Death of An Officer [ About Death of an Officer ] DCI Frank Merlin, already contending with a booming wartime crime wave in the capital, is confronted with a baffling case: the brutal murder of a…

#BookReview of #AGoodMother by Michelle Dunne

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne22nd May 2025Leave a comment

‘Two mothers. Two daughters. One devastating truth‘– A Good Mother [ About A Good Mother ] Alex Blake was terrified of water, and had been since she nearly drowned at age five. So when police find her body in the river and rule it a suicide, her mother, Jen knows they’re wrong. But no one…

#BookReview of #NeverLookBack by Karen Fitzgibbon

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne15th May 2025Leave a comment

‘The truth is cloaked in shadows, buried beneath layers of falsehoods and dishonesty’– Never Look Back [ About Never Look Back ] Jenny loses her nineteen-year-old daughter Clara at Colbert train station in Limerick. She is holding Clara’s young baby in her arms, a baby she didn’t know existed twenty-four hours earlier. As they move…

#BookReview of #BurnAfterReading by Catherine Ryan Howard

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne14th May 2025Leave a comment

‘A ghostwriter is tasked with capturing the memoirs of a man who might be a murderer and he’s ready to confess…‘– Burn After Reading [ About Burn After Reading ] The night Jack Smyth ran into flames in a desperate attempt to save his wife from their burning home, he was, tragically, too late – but hailed…

#BookReview of #TheSecretRoom by Jane Casey | @JaneCaseyAuthor | @janecasey.bsky.social

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne7th May 2025Leave a comment

‘The latest gripping new thriller featuring DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling author‘– The Secret Room [ About The Secret Room ] A closed door. An impossible murder. 2:32 p.m. Wealthy, privileged Ilaria Cavendish checks into a luxury London hotel and orders a bottle of champagne. Within the hour,…

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