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A funny and intensely moving portrait of childhood, death and a man’s relationship with his larger-than-life mother. This poignant, witty, warm-hearted yet unsentimental novel charts the turbulent relationship of a mother and son. As a young boy, Rory Keenan finds his mother bewilderingly and embarrassingly eccentric as his childhood is punctuated by hilarious, cringe-making episodes caused entirely by her unpredictable behaviour and bizarre habits and exploits. Kitty has a huge appetite – for food, for mysterious imaginary illnesses and for strange hobbies. Her irrepressible, opinionated nature ensures that she (and against his will, Rory too) is the centre of any attention to be had. At the end of Kitty’s life, Rory, now a grown man, begins to come to terms with his confused feelings for Kitty – he loves her devotedly, but nevertheless her cussedness still infuriates him. As memories and secrets from his family’s stormy past in Ireland and London echo through the tragedy of her final, very real illness we are given an outstandingly vivid and compassionate vision of life, love and death.

A stunning piece of psychological suspense from the author of Araby. Two very different women brought together by a secret from the past. Joan has a tentative grip on the world – she’s too trusting, soft-centred, cheery and straightforward, the sort of woman who still keeps teddy bears on her bed. By nature and by profession, Joan is a carer, employed to look after Nina Rawle, a crisp and sophisticated woman, stricken by a long-term illness. There is a very good reason why Joan has been taken on by Nina (nursing skills aside) and Nina’s tangled past in Northern Ireland, in which a single and fatal act of political passion played a destructive role, has a great deal to do with it. How and why Nina will reveal herself to Joan, whose part in Nina’s past is truly significant, makes for a tense and twisting tale. This is a quite different novel from Araby. We have here a pure piece of storytelling, a psychological tale with more than a touch of Barbara Vine. The fantastic storytelling skills and exploration of character which made Araby such a gem are in abundance in this new novel.

Walking on Water is a novella set in London. A number of characters impact on each other's lives, revealing the truth about old losses, scars and secrets.

A novel about a broken heart, an unlikely friendship, a con woman, a fading film star and the peculiarity of life.

INTRODUCING THE NEW SERIES BY BEST-SELLING, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR GRETTA MULROONEY 'It succeeds from the first pages.' - Annemarie S. DETECTIVE INSPECTOR SIV DRUMMOND IS LOOKING FOR A FRESH START. WHAT SHE GETS IS TWO DEAD BODIES. It's Detective Inspector Siv Drummond's first day back on the job, joining a new team in a new town. This fresh start isn't going to be easy. Still mourning the death of her husband, she must push aside her grief to focus on her first case. Lauren Visser and Matis Rimas are found stabbed to death in the idyllic woodland by the River Bere. Their mutilated bodies lie within feet of each other. A photograph of an unknown girl sits on Lauren's chest. She was an activist and wild swimmer. He was fishing illegally. WHAT IS THEIR CONNECTION? Siv and her team start ruling out suspects, but no one tells the truth when everyone has something to hide. What will be dredged up by the investigation? CAN DI SIV DRUMMOND FIGHT THE CURRENT OF LIES OR WILL SHE BE SWEPT AWAY? Elegantly written, THESE LITTLE LIES is a masterclass in slow-burning suspense that will keep you turning the pages into the early hours. Perfect for fans of Robert Galbraith, Tana French, Liane Moriarty, Rachel Cain or Ruth Rendell. MEET THE DETECTIVEDetective Inspector Siv Drummond is widowed following a tragic accident involving her husband. With everything in London reminding her of the past, she moves from a high-profile squad with the Met to a new job as DI in her old home town - sleepy, seaside Berminster. She's still grieving and lonely, but she's a fighter and she's smart, which earns her the respect of her colleagues DS Ali Carlin and DC Patrick Hill, and the grudging approval of her DCI, who wants his prot g to get her job. WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THESE LITTLE LIES'I loved this first in the DI Siv Drummond series, may there be many more to follow. I couldn't put the book down, but tried to read slowly...didn't want it to end. It's great having a book that you can't wait to get back into.' - Hannelore C. 'I thoroughly enjoyed These Little Lies which is a good procedural with several twists and a well concealed motive and perpetrator.' - Elaine T. 'Enjoyed it immensely - read it in one day, ignoring all else.' - Aileen G. 'The first in the series can often be a difficult thing... you've got to set up the scenes and the characters. This one did it well.' - Louise T. PREVIOUS PRAISE FOR GRETTA MULROONEY'A pleasure to read.' - The Independent 'A beautifully written book, a magnificent read.' - Big Issue 'A memorable tale with a shocking denouement.' - Time Out 'A psychological tale echoing Barbara Vine.' - The Bookseller 'I had plenty of guesses, all of them wrong so the novel held my attention throughout. The pacing is excellent.' - E. Tomasso 'The book moves along at a steady pace and gains momentum as it progresses. There are many twists and turns along the way as the reader is caught up in the intrigue and suspense towards a real jaw dropping shocker of an ending nobody will see coming.' BOOKS n ALL 'A thoroughly enjoyable read and extremely well thought out. Had me puzzled as an avid crime reader.' Carole 'A fascinating read with many twists and turns that keeps you guessing to the end. A must read.' Greta H. ALSO BY GRETTA MULROONEY THE TYRONE SWIFT DETECTIVE SERIESBOOK 1: THE LADY VANISHEDBOOK 2: BLOOD SECRETSBOOK 3: TWO LOVERS, SIX DEATHSBOOK 4: WATCHING YOUBOOK 5: LOW LAKEBOOK 6: YOUR LAST LIE

Looking for your next unputdownable mystery? Meet Detective Tyrone Swift. He takes the cases that the police have given up on. One dead fianc .One dead runaway.One woman desperate for answers. Respectable, dull Sam Goddard is found dead in the River Thames the evening before his wedding, with a fifteen-year-old girl. They were both sedated. Sam left a note: So sorry to do this to you . . . The investigation concludes they must have been in a relationship and taken their own lives. As far as the police are concerned, it's case closed. But Sam's bride-to-be Toni refuses to believe this. Desperate to uncover the truth, she turns to Detective Tyrone Swift for answers. But is she prepared for the killer secrets he's about to unearth? Death by the Thames is a seamlessly crafted, twisty crime thriller that will have you gripped from start to pulsating finish. Perfect for fans of Joy Ellis, Tana French, Val McDermid, Robert Galbraith, Ann Cleeves, Jane Adams or Elly Griffiths. WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT DEATH BY THE THAMES: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "LOVED this book as I have the whole series." Elaine N. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "When the opportunity arose to read Death by the Thames by Gretta Mulrooney, it was grabbed by both hands. A superb character along with equally superb story lines and an additional cast. Highly recommended." Iain Mc. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Ty is a great protagonist who leaps from the page, the dialogue is never forced or unrealistic . . . I thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommended it unreservedly." Tracy W. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I found it insidiously addictive. The best is saved for the denouement. I must admit that I didn't see most of it coming. There were plenty of surprises." Elaine T. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "An excellent, gripping and well-plotted mystery." Anna M. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Another Gretta Mulrooney masterpiece." Michelle D. THE DETECTIVETyrone Swift is an ex-police detective who now works privately. He's survived a stabbing and his fianc e running off with another man. Swift's personal life is complicated, to say the least. ALSO BY GRETTA MULROONEYTHE TYRONE SWIFT DETECTIVE SERIESBook 1: THE LADY VANISHEDBook 2: BLOOD SECRETSBook 3: TWO LOVERS, SIX DEATHSBook 4: WATCHING YOUBook 5: LOW LAKEBook 6: YOUR LAST LIEBook 7: HER LOST SISTERBook 8: MURDER IN PEMBROKESHIREBook 9: DEATH BY THE THAMES DETECTIVE INSPECTOR SIV DRUMMOND SERIESBook 1: THESE LITTLE LIESBook 2: NEVER CAME HOMEBook 3: MURDER IN MALLOW COTTAGE

Detective Siv Drummond moved back to her hometown in Sussex, hoping for a quiet life by the sea. But trouble soon follows . . . A little girl and her grandfather are murdered, minutes before her fourth birthday party. Detective Siv Drummond arrives at the family's beautiful coastal home to find a horrifying scene. The little girl lies dead at the bottom of the garden. Suffocated in her Wendy house. Her grandfather is in the kitchen, his head caved in. As long-kept secrets begin to surface, the killer is preparing to strike again. The clock is ticking for Siv to uncover the family's dark history and solve the case . . .

Even in peacetime, death is just around the corner.London, VE Day, 1945.Twenty-four-year-old Daisy Moore is at a crossroads. Racked with guilt over her mother's tragic death in a house fire, she needs a job and somewhere to live.She's offered a lifeline, working at the Dolphin Hotel in the quiet Oxfordshire village of Fernfield.It's a huge change after her exciting secret wartime work in London. Though the villagers aren't keen on outsiders - or young women who speak their mind.But when a body is found in one of the hotel bedrooms, Daisy must use all her skills to help find the murderer.Lucinda Laidlaw was a pacifist who lived with an Austrian Jewish refugee. And someone bashed in her skull with one of the hotel's trademark stone dolphin ornaments.Wounded war veteran Inspector Thaxted makes Felix Koller his number-one suspect. Felix is the beneficiary of Lucinda's will. But Daisy's not so sure he's the killer.And someone will do anything to stop Daisy finding out the truth.

You stare hard at the man in the photo, you're sure that's your brother. But he's been dead for years . . . hasn't he?Steve was just four years old when he was told his two-year-old brother Zac had died. Steve remembers his brother's strawberry-shaped birthmark and the missing little finger on his left hand.Now, over twenty years later, Steve stumbles across a photo of a man with the exact same birthmark and missing left finger. He looks the same age as Zac would have been - could this mysterious man be Steve's lost brother?Detective Tyrone Swift is called in to investigate. But Steve and Zac's mother is dead, their father long gone, and there's no official record of Zac's death. But when Swift finds letters belonging to their mum, his whole investigation is turned on its head.Swift is also battling his own increasingly complicated personal life as he deals with his daughter moving away.Swift must focus and find out the truth, no matter what the cost . . .

Do you love Agatha Christie and the classic whodunnits of the Golden Age? Then you'll adore this captivating new historical mystery from bestselling author Gretta Mulrooney.A mysterious letter.A brutal murder on a lonely country lane.A town full of suspects.Fernfield, Oxfordshire, 1946.Last year, the Dolphin Hotel was the scene of the most scandalous crime. Now, Daisy Moore - hotel manager and resourceful solver of the crime - is working hard to get things back on track.But she never reckoned on the arrival of boorish Ronnie Carpenter . . .He comes blustering into reception, his long-suffering wife trailing behind. Tonight is his friend's engagement party and he wouldn't miss it for the world.Leaving his wife to dress for the ritzy event, Ronnie steps out for some air. Never to return.He's only just checked in. Now he's vanished without a trace.The next morning, his body is found - slumped in the passenger seat of a motorcar that's been driven off the road - and Daisy can't help but be drawn into the case.Especially when an anonymous letter arrives in the post, telling Daisy exactly where to find the answers she is seeking.Daisy knows the true key to the mystery lies written between the lines.Can she uncover the identity of the letter writer before anyone else dies?AN UTTERLY CHARMING WHODUNNIT FULL OF RED HERRINGS SET IN FASCINATING POST-WAR ENGLAND.Discover a brilliant murder mystery, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Faith Martin, Anthony Horowitz, Jacqueline Winspear and Elly Griffiths.

A victim who's made her last mistake.A killer hiding in plain sight.Detective Siv Drummond faces her toughest case yet . . .One Saturday morning, Detective Siv is called to Lansdown Court, a secluded little seaside community of artists, entrepreneurs and drifters. Where someone just committed the ultimate crime.Behind the doors of Jem Calloway's studio, the walls, the canvases, everything is stained red. With blood.Slumped in Jem's chair, there's a dead woman. A knife plunged deep in her neck. She is Luanna Forbes, owner of the bijou gift shop next door.Jem says he has no idea how she got there. He spent the whole night at a party, in a drunken haze. Detective Siv has her doubts. Because her sergeant was at the same party.And something was eating Jem that night. A secret he couldn't tell.What - or who - made him hold his tongue?Siv must break through a wall of silence to uncover the truth. But in a tight-knit community where blood runs thicker than water, she's got her work cut out . . .Discover a stunningly accomplished police procedural with untold emotional depth. Fans of Joy Ellis, P.D. James, Ruth Rendell, Jane Adams, Tana French or Rachel Caine are sure to be enthralled.

BRILLIANT WOMEN'S FICTION TELLING A HEARTBREAKING TALE OF GOOD INTENTIONS GONE WRONG. YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PUT DOWN THIS BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN NOVEL TILL THE SHOCKING AND EMOTIONAL CONCLUSION What happens when you take an orphaned child into your new family? May has just started a new life with Nathan and his son from his first marriage. May meets a recently orphaned little girl, Elva, at the children's home where May teaches. She develops a close relationship with Elva, and together with her husband, she draws the child into their loving family circle. The bereaved girl blossoms in the easy affection of the new family. But there are clouds on the horizon: Nathan's ex-wife is hell-bent on disrupting the situation and complex ties of obligation and guilt threaten to destroy May's job, marriage, and everyone she loves. This is a gripping, sometimes harrowing novel telling the story of a blended family fighting for survival. There may be no perfect happy endings, but with love there is always hope for the future. Great for people who like Hilary Boyd, Jodi Picoult, Anne Enright, or Elena Ferrante

Gripping women's fiction about an unusual friendship between a teenage girl and an older woman. This absorbing novel will take you back to being thirteen again. A compelling novel of intrigue, growing up, and love for the wrong person by best-selling author Gretta Mulrooney Martina is a thirteen-year-old girl struggling to cope with the loss of her father. So her new friendship with the wealthy Cecelia Buchanan offers a lifeline. The older woman opens up Martina to a new world of elegance and beauty, and encourages her artistic talents. But Cecelia shares her flat with the handsome Luca, a younger man, whose motives are not always clear. This is an intriguing and beautifully written novel about that moment in life when you realise that the adult world is not always what it seems, and all the joy and pain of first loss and love. Great for people who like Hilary Boyd, Jodi Picoult, Anne Enright, or Elena Ferrante Also by Gretta Mulrooney: OUT OF THE BLUE: Will going back to a past love end up destroying everything? THE LADY VANISHED: A brilliantly plotted tale of deceit and detection. LOST CHILD: What happens when you take an orphaned child into your new family?

THE FASCINATING NEW DETECTIVE MYSTERY FROM CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR GRETTA MULROONEY "Beautifully written with psychological depth. This is a high-class private detective mystery which you won't want to put down. There's drama, conflict, and a family with some very nasty skeletons in the closet." Ann Abrams How can someone vanish without a trace? Carmen Langborne is a woman who no one seems to like very much, and now she's gone missing. But there is no body, no leads and no real suspects. And the police have stopped investigating her disappearance. Carmen's stepdaughter Florence hires private detective Tyrone Swift to find the missing woman. If the body is found, Florence will inherit half of a very valuable house. As Swift delves deeper into the family's affairs, he discovers dark family secrets that threaten the reputations of powerful people. Will Swift get to the truth before those with much to hide stop him? Find out in this absorbing mystery with many twists and turns, featuring characters with real dilemmas and conflicts. You will not want to put this book down till the surprising and dramatic conclusion. If you like Robert Galbraith, Angela Marsons, Colin Dexter, Ruth Rendell, or Mark Billingham you will be gripped by this exciting new crime fiction writer. THE LADY VANISHED is the first in a new series of detective mysteries featuring Tyrone Swift. Tyrone Swift is a former policeman turned private detective. He's survived a stabbing and his fianc e running off with another man. Swift is unlucky in love but pretty good at getting to the truth. He loves rowing on the river Thames and his ex-fianc e has just come back on the scene. OUT OF THE BLUE by Gretta Mulrooney is available now. Can you ever go back to your first love? and COMING OF AGE: A compelling novel of intrigue, growing up, and love for the wrong person by best-selling author Gretta Mulrooney.

A COMPELLING MYSTERY FULL OF TWISTS AND TURNS Fifteen years ago, a teenage boy, Teddy Bartlett, went to a woods on the outskirts of London and was beaten to a pulp and left damaged for life. The police never found who did it or why he was targeted. Now, the boy's father, recently returned from Australia, wants to find out what really happened to his son. He hires private detective Tyrone Swift to investigate the tragic crime. Swift quickly realises that the Bartletts are a family with dark secrets. Teddy's seemingly devoted sister Sheila, his estranged brother, and his father Rowan, who left his wife for her sister, are not what they seem. Swift himself is faced with his own family issues, and someone is out to get him. Could it be a disgruntled client or a criminal he came across in his days as a police inspector? BLOOD SECRETS is a beautifully written mystery that will have you gripped from start to finish. Perfect for fans of Robert Galbraith, Paula Hawkins, P.D. James, Gillian Flynn, or Ruth Rendell. This is a story of secrets, abandonment, repressed sexuality, dysfunctional families and brutality, with a hint of hope at the end.