The Darkest Place by Jo Spain

The Darkest Place by Jo Spain

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

Deft plotting and expert handling of tension make for an intelligent mystery * Guardian *
Absolutely my comfort reading * Ann Cleeves *
Packed with fascinating details. . this is a satisfying mystery * Irish Independent *
Atmospheric and compelling * Sinéad Crowley *
Jo Spain's vivid thriller explores the dark secrets from Ireland's past that continue to haunt Irish society today * Martin Sixsmith, author of Philomena *
In a very strong year for Irish crime-fiction debuts, Jo Spain's With Our Blessing is among the most assured . . . With Our Blessing picks at the scabs of recent Irish history to reveal raw and gaping wounds * Irish Times *
Spain's vivid thriller explores the dark secrets of Ireland's past * Irish Country Living *
Brilliant! Fast paced, well researched and sensitive. Jo Spain is a sparkling new talent * Irish Examiner *
Fiendishly clever . . . and a big fat twist is lobbed into the ending like a hand grenade * Irish Sunday Independent *
Reliably assured plotting, sympathetic characters - and something horrifyingly dark lurking at the edges - make Spain's latest DCI Tom Reynolds title a deeply satisfying read * Sunday Times *

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.

SKU	GOR012319254
ISBN 13	9781786483973
ISBN 10	1786483971
Title	The Darkest Place
Author	Jo Spain
Series	An Inspector Tom Reynolds Mystery
Condition	Well Read
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Quercus Publishing
Year published	2018-09-20
Number of pages	352
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