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When Karin Bolger, a successful but controversial businesswoman and her friend Sive Collins are abducted, a nationwide investigation is launched. Fresh from promotion and transfer to her new station in Galway, DI Naomi Fox is assigned to the case.

With Karin s plans to close the country's oldest and best-loved brewery, the finger of suspicion is pointed firmly in the direction of the Justice for the Workers protestors, led by one bitter and angry family.

But as DI Fox enters Karin s enviable world, the seemingly perfect life slowly unravels to expose a solitary and lonely existence, threatened by betrayal, exploitation and disloyalty.

Deadly Blind is a sharp thriller that slices through layer upon layer of lies and misdirections and spirals into a shattering conclusion.

William the celebrated politician, conniving father and devious husband. Barbara, his long-suffering wife who laces her day with alcohol so she can hide from herself.

And their children: Sebastian, a successful businessman defending his realm; Enya, the grieving prodigal daughter returned from self-imposed exile; Cormac, a sex addict with delusions of his own prowess; Ciara, an emotional drama queen who like a little lost puppy just wants to be loved; Rian, the damaged bird who looks to fix everyone else around him before fixing himself.

The Bertrams tell their lies and tolerate each other, not because they want to but because they have to: they’re family. But when their simmering tensions reach boiling point they discover that life has a way of letting slip even the most closely guarded secrets. Then it’s payback time for the Bertrams as events conspire to put an end to the biggest lie of all.

A riveting tale of intrigue, love, manipulation and family bonds.

Esmée Myers, once an impassioned woman, is living a life where her only excitement is the laundry and the children. Her relationship with her husband leaves a lot to be desired, but she is content to focus on providing emotional stability and security for her two young children.

For her husband, Philip, she is no more than a housekeeper, childminder and cleaner, easy to betray but not so easy to fool . . .

When Esmée becomes convinced that Philip is having an affair, she secretly plans to leave him and set up a new home with the children. Finally making the break, she feels she can look forward to a bright and fulfilling future.

Then Philip disappears without trace, leaving only his car standing on a clifftop. Though no body is found, the police deduce he has committed suicide. Esmée, however, thinks otherwise.

What begins as a carefully planned escape from a maudlin and tedious relationship descends into something much darker as layer by layer Esmée strips back the last ten years of her life with a man it turns out she never really knew.