A good, twisty police procedural set in Dublin. Frankie Sheehan is on her first case back after being badly injured during a murder investigation. At first the case seems a straightforward suicide - a woman found hanged in her own bedroom - but soon evidence mounts that the woman was murdered.

This novel will draw immediate comparisons to Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series, but Kiernan’s novel is more in the vein of a quick, thrilling read than French’s slower character studies. I look forward to the next in this new series.

Pedal to the metal from the very first page. Suspenseful and dark - oh so dark. This one really creeped me out. But I love Irish procedurals so I kept going. I look forward to the next book featuring Frankie.

It looks to be a standard suicide when Eleanor Costello is found hanging in her Dublin home. DCS Frankie Sheehan certainly wants it to be. After her last homicide case almost left the Detective dead herself, she’s suffering from a serious case of PTSD. Now all she wants to do is tie up the paperwork on this suicide. But an autopsy reveals old stab wounds and bruises, badly mended bones and other things that aren’t in Eleanor’s medical records. And then there’s the most recent cut on the victim, covered in paint. To further complicate matters, Costello’s husband is missing. When another woman is found dead, also with paint on her body, Frankie works with the only leads she has. A book and a laptop with access to the Dark Web found in the Costello home. This was an exciting read from a new author who will surely be compared to Tana French