With Our Blessing: An Inspector Tom Reynolds Mystery: 1 - Hardcover

Spain, Jo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1683314360 ISBN 13: 9781683314363

Publisher: Crooked Lane Books, 2019

Synopsis

In 1975, a baby just minutes old is taken from its devastated mother. In 2010, the gruesome corpse of a nun is found in a Dublin public park. Detective Inspector Tom Reynolds and his team are on the scene and he's convinced the murder is linked to historical events that took place in the infamous former Magdalene Laundries, institutions for "fallen women."

As Reynolds and his team follow the trail to an isolated convent, everything seems perfectly normal and it seems perhaps they've followed the wrong lead. But it soon becomes disturbingly clear that the killer is amongst them and determined to exact further vengeance for the sins of the past.

The walls in this closed-room mystery narrow in on Reynolds and his team as they race to stop another murder in With Our Blessing, bestselling author Jo Spain's US debut.

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Review:

Praise for the With Our Blessing
"Absolutely my comfort reading."
--Ann Cleeves, Dagger Award-winning author of Vera & the Shetland series

"The novel is razor-sharp...The denouement is fiendishly clever, a climax in the old-fashioned Agatha Christie-esque sense...a big fat twist is lobbed into the ending like a hand grenade."
--Sunday Independent

"Brilliant! Fast paced, well researched and sensitive. Jo Spain is a sparking new talent."
--Irish Examiner

"In a very strong year for Irish crime-fiction debuts, Jo Spain's With Our Blessing is among the most assured...[and] picks at the scabs of recent Irish history to reveal raw and gaping wounds."
--Declan Burke Irish Times

"Jo Spain writes as good a procedural as you are ever likely to read."
--Crime Review (UK)

About the Author:

Jo Spain is a full-time writer and screenwriter. Her first novel, With Our Blessing, was one of seven books shortlisted in the Richard and Judy Search for a Bestseller competition and her first psychological thriller. The Confession, was a number one bestseller in Ireland. Jo co-wrote the ground-breaking TV series Taken Down which first broadcast in Ireland in 2018. She's now working on multiple European TV projects. Joanne lives in Dublin with her husband and their four young children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1683314360
• ISBN 13: 9781683314363
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368