{"product_id":"where-they-lie-1","title":"Where They Lie","description":"\"A thrillingly dark and atmospheric tale, richly evocative of its time, especially for those of us old enough to remember 1968.\"--John Banville\n\nAn 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.\n\nSome stories demand to be told. They keep coming back, echoing down through the decades, until they find a teller . . .\n\nDublin, 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.\n\nUntil . . .\n\nDublin, 1968. Nicoletta Sarto is an ambitious junior reporter for the Irish Sentinel 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.\n\nA beautifully atmospheric, timely thriller, Where They Lie 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.","brand":"Claire Coughlan","offers":[{"title":"HarperCollins \/ 20 Feb 2024 \/ 554","offer_id":54232060428629,"sku":"9780063344600","price":3.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0501\/4188\/8668\/files\/9780063344600_d893876b-6ab5-4164-aff7-d76ea3e3b8d7.webp?v=1782555485","url":"https:\/\/www.bookworld.ie\/products\/where-they-lie-1","provider":"Book World Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}