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9780007195367

Darkhouse

Darkhouse

by Alex Barclay

Publisher HarperCollins

Genre: Crime

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About the book

Alex Barclay

EVERYTHING YOU NEVER EXPECTED

From a broken childhood comes an unbreakable and deadly bond.

In 1985 in a North Texas backwater, two teenage boys made a chilling pact that would unite them forever in a dark and twisted loyalty.

Now one lies dead.
And the man responsible is going to pay.

When a routine investigation comes to a violent and tragic end, Detective Joe Lucchesi takes leave from the NYPD and moves with his wife and son to a quiet village on the south east coast of Ireland. They're happy. They're safe. And they're about to enter a nightmare more terrifying than the one they left behind.

When a young girl goes missing and the village closes ranks, Detective Lucchesi sets out to find the truth and uncovers a sinister trail that leads from the other side of the Atlantic and cuts directly to the very heart of his family.

His wife is lying. His son is lying.
And a killer is lying in wait.

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About the Author

Alex Barclay

Alex Barclay, born in 1974 in Dublin, Ireland is an Irish crime writer. She is a journalism graduate and has worked in fashion journalism as a copywriter in the RTE Guide.


She quit the fashion industry in 2003 to write Darkhouse, the first two books featuring New York Police Department detective Joe Lucchesi.


Alex's second novel The Caller was published in 2007 while The Last Call was published in 2008. The author has won the Ireland AM Crime Fiction Award during the Irish Book Awards for her 3rd novel; Blood Runs Cold which was a start of the Agent Ren Bryce book series. Since then the character has been featured in other novels such as Time of Death and Blood Loss.

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