Bøker av Jonathan Cullen

The weight of secrets...The courage it takes to sometimes speak the truth...From the Amazon bestselling author of The Storm Beyond The Tides comes the personal saga of two people whose troubled lives intersect on the remote west coast of Ireland in 1981."...Emotionally charged and deeply moving..."¿ Christina McKenna, bestselling author of The Misremembered Man and The Disenchanted WidowWinters are long on the windswept coast of Connemara, where Tara Doherty has come to live after the death of her husband. The isolation is all but unbearable until a mysterious tenant moves into the house at the bottom of the hill.James Dunford has come from America, but he won't say why. He spends his days fixing up the old cottage and walking the beach with a stray dog that showed up on his doorstep.As the weeks pass, Tara tries to get to know James, but he resists her at every turn. And it's not until a local villager recognizes him from the news that she realizes his visit might be about more than just a vacation.On the night of a big storm, Tara finally confronts James about why he is there. But how can she expect him to be honest when she, too, is hiding her own dark secret?Set against the backdrop of the Hunger Strikes in Northern Ireland, Sunsets Never Wait is a story about love, loss, and the risks of hanging on to the past. No matter how much the world has let you down, there's always a possibility for second chances.

Ellie Ames thought little of her future in July 1939. As the daughter of a lobsterman, why should she? But everything changed the moment a mysterious German couple came off the ferry with their nineteen-year-old son.From the moment Ellie meets Karl Brink, the two become inseparable and not everyone approves. Locals are suspicious of outsiders. Always were. Should be even more so, these days.Ellie ignores their scorn. And the secret she learns about Karl's family makes her even more determined to be with him.The magical summer ends when the Brinks suddenly have to go home. Karl promises to return in the fall for her. But by then Europe is at war.Two years pass and Ellie has all but given up hope when she gets a letter in the mail that will change her life forever...The Storm Beyond The Tides is the story of the unlikely romance between a small-town girl and a German on the eve of the Second World War and explores a frightening time in America's past-when U-Boats prowled the East Coast and put small, coastal communities on the frontline of a global conflict.Fans of The Nightingale, Orphan Train, and Sarah's Key will love this timeless novel about love and loss at the onset of World War Two."...Cullen delivers a novel that's fast-moving, fresh, and imbued with the best of old-fashioned storytelling, too. Let him take you back in time to that moment when the future of the world and every life in it hung in precarious balance."¿ William Martin, New York Times bestselling author of Cape Cod and Bound for Gold"Well-written and touching saga of life in Maine during WW2."¿ Eoin Dempsey, Amazon bestselling author of Finding Rebecca and White Rose Black Forest

Boston, 1966. Someone is killing Korean War veterans and Detective Jody Brae might know why."Gripping. Atmospheric. And hard as nails." - Colin Campbell, author of Beacon Hill and Snake PassOf all his regrets in life, Jody Brae wished he hadn't lost touch with his best friend Al Russo. They grew up in the slums of Boston during the Depression-enlisted in the Marines and fought together in Korea. As boys, they were like brothers, but the War changed them and they drifted apart.Now a detective with the Boston Police, Brae has put those dark years behind him, finally finding in his girlfriend Ruth the love and stability he never had growing up. But after they return from a trip to Ireland, he is shocked to learn that Al Russo has been murdered. Brae has no time to grieve because days later a body is found under a bridge, then another in an alleyway. Not only are they all veterans, but they are all men from his old platoon who were in town for a reunion.As the killings continue, Brae discovers a secret from the War which might explain why. And while he wants to get justice for Al Russo, he also wants to protect Ruth from the horrors of his past. The question is: can he do both?Set in the gritty world of 1960's Boston, Whiskey Point is a story about friendship, loyalty and the cost of forgetting. Under tough circumstances, we all ignore things we shouldn't, but that doesn't mean they didn't happen.