Where They Lie

<p><strong>A thrillingly dark and atmospheric tale richly evocative of its time especially for those of us old enough to remember 1968.</strong><strong>--John Banville</strong></p><p><strong>An immersive literary thriller set in 1960s Dublin about an ambitious young female journalist whose investigation of a long missing actress will take her through misty streets and the tangled underworld--and force her to confront the long buried secrets of her own past.</strong></p><p><em>Some stories demand to be told. They keep coming back echoing down through the decades until they find a teller . . .</em></p><p>Dublin 1943. Actress Julia Bridges disappears. She was last seen entering the house of Gloria Fitzpatrick who is later put on trial for the murder of a woman whose abortion she facilitated. But it's never proved that Gloria had a hand in Julia's death--and Julia's body has never been found. Gloria however is sentenced to life in an institution for the criminally insane where she's found dead a few years later from an apparent suicide and the truth of what happened to Julia Bridges dies with her.</p><p>Until . . .</p><p>Dublin 1968. Nicoletta Sarto is an ambitious junior reporter for the <em>Irish Sentinel</em> when the bones of Julia Bridges are discovered in the garden of a house on the outskirts of the city. Drawn into investigating the 25-year-old mystery of Julia's disappearance and her link to the notorious Gloria Fitzpatrick Nicoletta becomes immersed in the tangled underworld of the illegal abortion industry stirring up long-buried secrets from her own past.</p><p>A beautifully atmospheric timely thriller <em>Where They Lie</em> uses a murder mystery as a lens to focus on the long struggle of women fighting to achieve autonomy and succeed in a man's world.</p>