Unusually this gruesome, violent, psycho-killer tale is set mostly in Ireland. It has all the classic American traits, ex-cop, deranged killer, innocent victims, a warped childhood and lots of blood but the author is Irish. I loved it, totally gripping, compulsive, terrifying and disturbing.
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About Darkhouse
EVERYTHING YOU NEVER EXPECTED. Escaping New York for the beautiful Irish Isle seemed the best way to escape the past for NYPD detective Joe Lucchesi and his family. But following the death of a girl in the local village, Joe soon finds out that the killer is closer to his past than he would care to remember.
EVERYTHING YOU NEVER EXPECTED. Escaping New York for the beautiful Irish Isle seemed the best way to escape the past for NYPD detective Joe Lucchesi and his family. But following the death of a girl in the local village, Joe soon finds out that the killer is closer to his past than he would care to remember.
From a broken childhood comes an unbreakable and deadly bond.
In New York, when a routine investigation comes to a violent and tragic end, Detective Joe Lucchesi takes leave from the NYPD and moves with his wife and son to a quiet village on the south-east coast of Ireland. But their lives are torn apart when a young girl goes missing and the village closes ranks.
Desperate to protect his family, Joe sets out to find the truth and uncovers a trail that leads back across the Atlantic to a Texan backwater, where decades earlier, a chilling pact bound two teenage boys forever in a dark and twisted loyalty.
Darkhouse is a terrific debut by an exciting new writer’ The Independent on Sunday
'With no-hold, non-stop action moving seamlessly between North Texas, New York and Waterford, Barclay confidently delivers a knockout first novel’ The Irish Times
‘This rips along and shows great technique for a debut novel. Take my word for it we will hear more of young Barclay' The Irish Independent
Author
About Alex Barclay
Alex Barclay lives in County Cork, Ireland. She is the bestselling author of Darkhouse and The Caller, as well as the Ren Bryce series.
EVERYTHING YOU NEVER EXPECTED. Escaping New York for the beautiful Irish Isle seemed the best way to escape the past for NYPD detective Joe Lucchesi and his family.
Darkhouse features in the following genres: Debut Books of the Month, Thriller and Suspense, eBooks of the Month, Recommendations, Fiction
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Darkhouse was written by Alex Barclay and published by HarperCollinsPublishers an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Darkhouse has 408 pages
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