In the shadows of a forgotten asylum, deadly secrets wait to be unearthed - the gripping new thriller from Ireland's queen of rural noir.
SUSPENSE LIES IN THE SHADOWS OF RURAL IRELAND...
Hazel McDermott is on the phone with her husband Darragh when she hears the screech of tyres. The jeep he was driving is soon found, overturned in a field off the motorway, but Darragh has vanished.
As the days pass and the Gardaí investigate, Hazel's carefully built life starts to crumble. She soon discovers that her charismatic property developer husband has been keeping secrets - personal and financial - that could put her family's safety and future at risk. But where is he? Is something sinister afoot, after he got into bed with the wrong people? And what is the connection to an abandoned mental asylum in a small town in County Galway? The answer, when she eventually gets it, will shock Hazel beyond belief.
Taut, unsettling, rich with suspense, If These Walls Could Talk is a gripping West of Ireland thriller about deception, obsession and the haunting truths we hide - even from those closest to us.
'Dark, endlessly twisty' Amy Jordan
'Taut and terrific' Gill Perdue
'Gripping' Catherine Kirwan
"No one does rural noir like Michelle McDonagh ... Cleverly plotted. Deftly executed. A taut and terrific read!" - Gill Perdue
"Michelle McDonagh delivers secrets and suspense with a journalist's eye for both the details and the wider context. If These Walls Could Talk is a gripping read that will have McDonagh's many fans turning the pages late into the night" - Catherine Kirwan
"If These Walls Could Talk is Michelle's best book yet. A dark, endlessly twisty thriller that is genuinely shocking, this book will keep you up all night. Every wife's nightmare, it is truly unputdownable" - Amy Jordan
"Another winner from Michelle McDonagh, who never fails to deliver suspenseful and emotionally taut Irish rural thrillers" - Carmel Harrington
"Terrific ... gripping" - The Irish Times
"Ireland's queen of rural noir ... a masterclass in psychological suspense ... a roller-coaster ride of a novel ... tautly plotted, unsettlingly atmospheric and grips the reader until its shocking denouement" - Sunday Independent
"Terrific ... gripping" - The Irish Times
