Bøker av Gretta Mulrooney

A victim who's made her last mistake.A killer hiding in plain sight.Detective Siv Drummond faces her toughest case yet . . .One Saturday morning, Detective Siv is called to Lansdown Court, a secluded little seaside community of artists, entrepreneurs and drifters. Where someone just committed the ultimate crime.Behind the doors of Jem Calloway's studio, the walls, the canvases, everything is stained red. With blood.Slumped in Jem's chair, there's a dead woman. A knife plunged deep in her neck. She is Luanna Forbes, owner of the bijou gift shop next door.Jem says he has no idea how she got there. He spent the whole night at a party, in a drunken haze. Detective Siv has her doubts. Because her sergeant was at the same party.And something was eating Jem that night. A secret he couldn't tell.What - or who - made him hold his tongue?Siv must break through a wall of silence to uncover the truth. But in a tight-knit community where blood runs thicker than water, she's got her work cut out . . .Discover a stunningly accomplished police procedural with untold emotional depth. Fans of Joy Ellis, P.D. James, Ruth Rendell, Jane Adams, Tana French or Rachel Caine are sure to be enthralled.

'On hearing of Kitty Keenan's admittance to hospital, her grown-up son Rory returns to Ireland to comfort his father and await the diagnosis . . . Rory's narrative, charting the steady decline of her health, is interspersed with a series of flashbacks . . . through which Kitty emerges larger than life. For Rory, these snapshots of the past are part of the process of unpicking the odd tangle of love and petty grievances that characterise familial relationships. Mulrooney's ability to make sense of the contradictions in clear, precise prose is the most remarkable achievement of the novel. A beautifully observed study of reconciliation, 'Araby' makes astute points about conflict and shifting values between generations. 'JAMES EVE, 'The Times''Kitty is a magnificent diva of discontent: contradictory, ludicrous, sharp-witted, thick-skinned, the sort of character best enjoyed from a distance . . . The narrative of her decline and death is worked with frequent flashbacks to Kitty's heyday, and her enthusiasm for Catholicism, medicament, hobbies and quarrelling . . . What is admirable about Mulrooney's writing is the way she manages to keep the tone bouyant, while alluding to many heartbreaking strands of family history. For both Kitty and Rory, this is a story of gallant survival. 'RUTH PAVEY, 'Independent''Mulrooney has a real gift for dialogue, the words and phrases ring true and make her characters wonderfully real . . . A tenderly funny and genuinely moving piece. I loved it.'FIONA MORROW, 'Time Out''An amusing, totally unsentimental slice of life and a chilling meditation on morality . . . Never angst-ridden or moralistic (a mixture of black comedy, affection and over-the-top farce) . . . I really enjoyed this truthful and affecting novel. 'BOOKS IRELAND'Wonderful'MAEVE BINCHY

Do you love Agatha Christie and the classic whodunnits of the Golden Age? Then you'll adore this captivating new historical mystery from bestselling author Gretta Mulrooney.A mysterious letter.A brutal murder on a lonely country lane.A town full of suspects.Fernfield, Oxfordshire, 1946.Last year, the Dolphin Hotel was the scene of the most scandalous crime. Now, Daisy Moore - hotel manager and resourceful solver of the crime - is working hard to get things back on track.But she never reckoned on the arrival of boorish Ronnie Carpenter . . .He comes blustering into reception, his long-suffering wife trailing behind. Tonight is his friend's engagement party and he wouldn't miss it for the world.Leaving his wife to dress for the ritzy event, Ronnie steps out for some air. Never to return.He's only just checked in. Now he's vanished without a trace.The next morning, his body is found - slumped in the passenger seat of a motorcar that's been driven off the road - and Daisy can't help but be drawn into the case.Especially when an anonymous letter arrives in the post, telling Daisy exactly where to find the answers she is seeking.Daisy knows the true key to the mystery lies written between the lines.Can she uncover the identity of the letter writer before anyone else dies?AN UTTERLY CHARMING WHODUNNIT FULL OF RED HERRINGS SET IN FASCINATING POST-WAR ENGLAND.Discover a brilliant murder mystery, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Faith Martin, Anthony Horowitz, Jacqueline Winspear and Elly Griffiths.

Detective Siv Drummond moved back to her hometown in Sussex, hoping for a quiet life by the sea. But trouble soon follows . . .A little girl and her grandfather are murdered, minutes before her fourth birthday party.Detective Siv Drummond arrives at the family's beautiful coastal home to find a horrifying scene.The little girl lies dead at the bottom of the garden. Suffocated in her Wendy house. Her grandfather is in the kitchen, his head caved in.As long-kept secrets begin to surface, the killer is preparing to strike again.The clock is ticking for Siv to uncover the family's dark history and solve the case . . .