For fans of Patricia Gibney, Angela Marsons, Robert Dugoni and Alex Barclay, Little Bones introduces Cathy Connolly, a bright young heroine set to take the world of crime fiction by storm.
Attending what seems to be a routine break-in, troubled Detective Garda Cathy Connolly makes a grisly discovery: an old wedding dress - and, concealed in its hem, a baby's bones.
And then the dress's original owner, Lavinia Grant, is found dead in a Dublin suburb.
Searching for answers, Cathy is drawn deep into a complex web of secrets and lies spun by three generations of women.
Meanwhile, a fugitive killer has already left two dead in execution style killings across the Atlantic - and now he's in Dublin with old scores to settle. Will the team track him down before he kills again?
Struggling with her own secrets, Cathy doesn't know dangerous - and personal - this case is about to become...
'Instantly gripping, perfectly paced, and filled with a brilliant cast of characters' Alex Barclay Sam Blake is a pseudonym for Vanessa Fox O'Loughlin, the founder of The Inkwell Group publishing consultancy and the hugely popular national writing resources website Writing.ie. Little Bones, her debut, was shortlisted for the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards Crime Fiction Book of the Year award. Introducing Cathy Connolly - a gripping new thriller from a brilliant new talent in Irish crime fiction A number one bestseller in Ireland The beginning of an action-packed new crime series set in Dublin Sam Blake is a pseudonym of Vanessa O'Loughlin, a leading Dublin literary scout You will not be able to put this down This dark and juddering thriller . . . A major boon in Little Bones' appeal factor is Det Cat Connolly who leaps from the page . . . Little Bones has discussions to raise via Cat and her personal life, themes that colour the contemporary Ireland backdrop for the uninitiated. Connolly, for whom the word "gutsy" might have been invented, is a terrific character . . . a compelling debut; the author keeps her complex storyline going all the way to its incredible ending
