[About Reported Missing] When four-year-old Alfie disappears during a community sports day, Detective Sergeant Darcy Doyle and Detective Inspector Mick Kelly are thrust into their most chilling investigation yet. What begins as a frantic missing-child case quickly escalates when a grim discovery is made in the Dublin Mountains — one that raises more questions than…
On this week’s Write Smarter Blog, I am delighted to introduce you all to my guest Alex Dunne. Alex has been a published author for nearly four years but has been writing for much longer than that and, according to Alex herself, ‘in my time I’ve made a truly impressive number of mistakes‘. Alex’s first children’s…
On this week’s Write Smarter Blog, I am delighted to introduce you all to my guest Rebecca Murphy, winner of the 2025 RTÉ Today Show Novel Competition in association with Mercier Press. Blood & Water is her debut novel and is described as‘a haunting, beautifully observed novel about identity, inheritance, and the quiet devastations that echo…
[ About The Hotel Guest ] Kit’s summer job at the Abbaye de Saint Maurice was supposed to be a clean slate – until she fell in with ‘the Olympians’, a clique of wealthy young academics staying nearby. Kit, desperate to fit in, was drawn to them like a moth to a flame. Then came…
[ About The Woman in The Water ] At the heart of the classic novel Rebecca lies a mystery … Pearl Day has always lived in the background – companion to her childhood friend, the dazzling and unpredictable Lady Eleanor Nicholson. Their bond was forged at Alderleigh, Eleanor’s crumbling country estate, but now they share a sleek…
‘Telling the truth could destroy something – or someone.’ [ About Tell The Truth ] A woman is accused of murdering her husband. Twelve jurors must decide her fate. Marion McMahon lies in her cell, guarding a secret that could set her free. But she will never tell. She is safer on the inside. Stephanie…
‘An unforgettable story of two families riven by one great secret’ [ About Everything that is Beautiful ] For Niamh Ryan, the Foleys are family. Her childhood flew by on their farm, playing with her best friend Peter and his sister Kate – all the while being doted on by their mother Helen and coached…
On this week’s Write Smarter Blog, I am delighted to introduce you all to my guest, USA Today bestselling Irish author, Felicity Hayes-McCoy. Born and educated in Dublin, Felicity built a successful London-based career, as an actor and voice-artist, and as a scriptwriter in theatre, music theatre, radio, TV, and digital media. She began writing…
‘Three women, each at a turning point in her life, are drawn together by old secrets and new dilemmas.‘ [ About Secrets Between Friends ] Ailie, Sybil and Rua can take care of themselves. But when they form an unexpected friendship, they discover new perspectives on old problems. Ailie is recently widowed, and struggling. At least…
‘Rosaleen McDonagh is a writer of huge and vivacious talent and this is a brilliant novel, so vivid and urgent and addictive.’ — Kevin Barry [ About Contentious Spaces ] The Traveller families who live in Saint Rita’s are on borrowed time. In just a week they will be evicted by the local council, threatening…