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Where They Lie
By (Author) Claire Coughlan
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Simon & Schuster Ltd
20th March 2024
1st February 2024
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Crime and mystery: women sleuths
Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives
Historical fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Narrative theme: Social issues
Narrative theme: Identity / belonging
Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
Narrative theme: Love and relationships
823.92
Hardback
384
Width 153mm, Height 234mm, Spine 27mm
Some stories demand to be told. They keep coming back, echoing down through the decades, until they find a teller . . .
Dublin, 1943
Actress Julia Bridges disappears.
The last sighting of her is entering the house of Gloria Fitzpatrick, who is later put on trial for the murder of another woman whose abortion she facilitated.
But its never proved that Gloria had a hand in Julias death and Julias body has never been found.
Gloria, however, is sentenced to life in an institution for the criminally insane, until her apparent suicide a few years later, and the truth of what happened to Julia Bridges dies with her.
Until . . .
Dublin, 1968
Nicoletta Sarto is an ambitious junior reporter for the Irish Sentinel when the bones of Julia Bridges are discovered in the garden of a house on the outskirts of Dublin.
Drawn into investigating the 25-year-old mystery of Julias disappearance and her link to the notorious Gloria Fitzpatrick, the story takes Nicoletta into the tangled underworld of the illegal abortion industry, stirring up long-buried secrets from her own past.
As much a murder mystery story as a look at a young womans struggle to succeed in a mans world, Where They Lie is a beautifully atmospheric debut that will stay with you long after youve turned the last page.