Mary Joyce

Mary Joyce was born in Limerick, Ireland, where she trained as a news journalist, later working for the Evening Press in Dublin and the BBC in London. She later spent 14 years in Zambia and South Africa, working concurrently for radio, television and the Zambia Mail in Lusaka and for the Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg.

She has written five historical novels, but is now concentrating on contemporary fiction.

Sent back to England under an unexplained could, Caroline has been haunted by Carrigrua all her life.  Now, returning as an adult, she is determined to resolve a lifetime of suppressed questions.

But when she stumbles into a sealed bedroom, Caroline is faced with even more disturbing truths – and an unnerving discovery. Who was Clemency Conroy, whose bracelet lies discarded beneath the bed?

When journalist Brigit Flood sees Conor Byrne's paintings of his wife Hannah, she simply can't get them out of her mind. After she meets Hannah in person, at Conor's studio home on the coast of County Clare, she begins to understand the tensions that made Conor's paintings so memorable. Hannah is bitterly thin, clearly unstable, a thorn in the side of the local artistic community Conor has formed.

Apart from Conor, no one seems to want Brigit at Kilnaboy, despite her intention of bringing Conor's work to a wider audience via a TV series. But, drawn to the charismatic artist, Brigit is determined to make the most of the opportunity, little knowing what a nest of vipers she is stumbling into, nor what poisons they are capable of disgorging; not just from their own pasts, but from Brigit's too.