The Darkest Place
(An Inspector Tom Reynolds Mystery Book 4)
Published on 20. September 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-78648-397-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 Oilean 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
'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 Oilean 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
Reviews / Votes
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 * Sinead 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 *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
458 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78648-397-3 (9781786483973)
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Jo Spain
The Darkest Place
A bingeable, edge-of-your-seat mystery (An Inspector Tom Reynolds Mystery Book 4)
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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.