Stuart Neville

DCI Serena Flanagan is asked to sign off the suicide of a severely disabled businessman, whose widow’s close relationship with the local reverend starts to sound an alarm. Serena’s determination to unlock the mystery of what happened may cost her her job – and her family.

When 12-year-old Ciaran Devine confessed to murdering his foster father it sent shock waves through the nation. But was there more to this case than the police uncovered? When concerns are brought to DCI Serena Flanagan, years of lies begin to unravel, setting a deadly chain of events in motion.

Thirteen gripping and unsettling tales from one of Northern Ireland's bestselling crime authors.

Stuart Neville is a writer known for shining an unflinching light on his home country and its people. Ireland - north and south - in Neville's hands, is a land haunted by ghosts, both real and imagined. This collection is divided into two parts: New Monsters and Old Friends. And many of the characters from Stuart's novels, like Gerry Fegan from The Twelve, can be found haunting these pages. Childhood, innocence, guilt and redemption are all themes that are represented in Stuart's novels and in this collection, as John Connolly puts in his Foreword, 'here are monsters, both human and non-human. Here are hauntings, real or imagined. Here are old friends and older fiends.'