Last Kiss (40 page)

Finally, I want to thank my husband, Robert, my children, Jennifer, Lorraine and Graham, and my granddaughter and grandson, Caitríona and Carrig, to whom this book is dedicated.

I would also like to thank you, my friends, family, colleagues, and readers, and anyone who has helped me directly or indirectly along the way who is not mentioned individually here. I feel privileged to have been gifted with so many wonderful people in my life, and I hope you enjoy this story.

RED RIBBONS

There is a place without shadows. Where evil resides …

A missing schoolgirl is found buried in the Dublin mountains, hands clasped together in prayer, two red ribbons in her hair. Twenty-four hours later, a second schoolgirl is found in a shallow grave – her body identically arranged. The hunt for the killer is on. The police call in profiler Dr Kate Pearson to get inside the mind of the murderer before he strikes again. But there’s one vital connection to be made – Ellie Brady, a mother institutionalised fifteen years earlier for the murder of her daughter Amy. What connects the death of Amy Brady to the murdered schoolgirls? As Kate Pearson begins to unravel the truth, danger is closer than she knows …

Shortlisted for the Ireland AM Crime Fiction

Book of the Year Award (BGE Irish Book Awards 2012)

Also available as an ebook

THE DOLL’S HOUSE

Winner of the Ireland AM Crime Fiction

Book of the Year Award (BGE Irish Book Awards 2013)

The past is waiting …

Thirty-five years ago Adrian Hamilton drowned. At the time his death was deemed a tragic accident but the exact circumstances remain a mystery.

His daughter Clodagh now visits a hypnotherapist in an attempt to come to terms with her past, and her father’s death. As disturbing childhood memories are unleashed, memories of another tragedy begin to come to light.

Meanwhile criminal psychologist Dr Kate Pearson is called to assist in a murder investigation after a body is found in a Dublin canal. And when Kate digs beneath the surface of the killing, she discovers a sinister connection to the Hamilton family.

Time is running out for Clodagh and Kate.

And the killer has already chosen his next victim …

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