Where They Lie Av Claire Coughlan

<P><B>SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR</B><BR/><BR/> ‘A superb novel, evoking a bygone era when women could not afford to put a foot wrong’<BR/><B><I>SUNDAY TIMES</I></B><BR/> ‘This isn't just a mystery novel: it's a window into a vanished world’<BR/><B>TANA FRENCH </B><BR/><BR/><B>Some stories demand to be told. They keep coming back,<BR/> echoing down through the decades, until they find a teller . . .</B><BR/><BR/><B>Dublin, 1943</B><BR/> Actress Julia Bridges disappears.<BR/> Her body is never found.<BR/>  <BR/><B>Dublin, 1968</B><BR/> The bones of Julia Bridges are discovered in a back garden.<BR/> Nicoletta Sarto, an ambitious junior reporter for the <I>Irish Sentinel</I>, investigates the mystery of Julia’s disappearance, drawing her into the tangled underworld of the illegal abortion industry.<BR/><BR/><B>But some stories remain a mystery for a reason, and it’s not long before this one stirs up buried secrets from Nicoletta’s own past. Secrets that perhaps should stay buried . . . </B><BR/><BR/> 'A thrillingly dark and atmospheric tale, richly evocative of its time'<B> JOHN BANVILLE</B><BR/> 'Atmospheric and absorbing, . . . A dark and turbulent journey to unexpected truths’ <B>VAL McDERMID</B><BR/> ‘A dark, gorgeously-written thriller’<B> NICCI FRENCH </B><BR/> ‘Atmospheric, authentic, and almost unbearably poignant . . .  transports the reader back in time while holding up a mirror to the present. A must-read’ <B>ERIN KELLY</B><BR/> 'Gripping and brilliantly atmospheric' <B>RODDY DOYLE</B><BR/> ‘Deliciously evocative and atmospheric . . . a shocking story, stylishly told’<BR/><B><I>IRISH SUNDAY INDEPENDENT</I></B><BR/><BR/>   </P>