Inisrun is a place where everyone’s business is everyone’s business, and the rumour mill is ever-churning. Foley has given the book her nod of approval and they make good companion reads, both landing us in a very harsh and ominous environment, cut off from the safety of the mainland, places struggling to overcome the violence of the past, and with the threat of more to come.

Years later a documentary about the tragedy is on the cards, threatening the fragile peace that really was never that peaceful. I thought I was reading a murder mystery thriller but it felt more like a noir version of Days of our Lives. Louise O’Neill has turned her hand to many different genres; young adult, contemporary fiction and now a psychological thriller. Either there was the constant use of the native tongue or Keelin drifting off into fairyland, as she so often did.On the day of Henry and Keelin Kinsella’s wild party at their big house a violent storm engulfed the island of Inisrún, cutting it off from the mainland. Once again, the book is spot on in relation to the (not so) subtle ways misogyny plays out in our media and cultural modes of thinking from gendered ageing and appearance ('there were no comments about Henry's appearance, she noticed. It's been 10 years since the murder, and while no one was convicted for it - Henry Kinsella, Sasanach and blow-in to the island was the prime suspect, and still treated as such by the islanders. O’Neill appears to be prodding at our morbid fascination with true crime here - ‘salivating over the details, play-acting like a bunch of Nancy Drews, as if there’s not real people involved, real families torn-apart’, as one islander puts it.

As the tenth anniversary of the Nessa Crowley’s death approaches, a pair of Australian documentarians visit the small island of Inisrun, off the coast of West Cork to investigate her unsolved murder. If you’re anything like me, you’ll turn these pages while your skin crawls, and you’ll want to yell at the book, as if it could transmit your words to Keelin: leave him, run, wake up and realize what he’s doing. I really hate it when a premise to a book promises something so much more than the book itself actually offers.On the day of Henry and Keelin Kinsella’s wild party at their big house a violent storm engulfed the island of Inisrun, cutting it off from the mainland. Yet Keelin is a woman full of kindness and gentleness, with an urge to help others but secrets she must keep hidden away. You’re well aware there’s more to her than meets the eye, and it was great fun trying to guess her next moves. For Nancy Venable Raine, second only to the soul-breaking burden of her rape at 39 was the silence that shrouded it, a silence born of her own feelings of shame and the incomprehension of others. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.