An instant New York Times bestseller
Featured by the Washington Post, TIME Magazine, BBC, TODAY, Elle, CrimeReads, and more. named most anticipated book of 2024
“Hailed as the Queen of Irish Crime Fiction, the Frenchwoman tells a tense tale . of punishment, sacrifice and family. »—TIME
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Searcher and “one of the greatest crime novelists writing today” (Vox), comes a riveting new novel set in scene in rural Ireland.
It was a bright summer when two men arrived in a small village in the west of Ireland. One of them goes home. Both will become rich.One of them comes to die.
Cal Hooper retires early from the Chicago police force and moves to rural Ireland in search of peace. He more or less found it: he built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he gradually transformed Trey Reddy from a semi-feral teenager into a well-behaved, go-to kid. good places. But then Trey