The dark hours

The dark hours

Amy Jordan

Book - 2025

"1994: When Gardaí Julia Harte and Adrian Clancy are called out to a sleepy housing estate in Cork to investigate a noise complaint, they are entirely unprepared for what they find. What happens next will haunt Julia for the rest of her days, leaving her plagued with nightmares and terrified of the dark. There is a serial killer at work in Cork, one as clever as he is deadly. Julia may not be a detective yet, but after the harrowing events of that night, she is determined to be the one to catch him...2024: Julia Harte has chosen just the right place to disappear. Now a retired detective with an illustrious career behind her, she has moved to a tiny cottage in a remote part of Ireland where she hopes to find peace. But then she receive...s a phone call from her old Superintendent - two women have been murdered, their bodies marked and staged, just like in '94."--Amazon.

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Subjects
Retired women > Ireland > Fiction.
Serial murder investigation > Fiction.
Serial murderers > Fiction.
Psychic trauma > Fiction.
Ireland > Fiction.
Cork (Ireland) > Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Detective and mystery fiction.
Novels.
Genres
Thrillers (Fiction)
Detective and mystery fiction
Novels
Published
Toronto, Ontario : Mira [2025]
Language
English
Main Author
Amy Jordan (author)
Item Description
Title taken from cover.
Physical Description
314 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN
9780778368113
9780778387817
Contents unavailable.
Review by Booklist Review

Shortly after her sixtieth birthday, retired Irish Garda officer Julia Harte receives two pieces of news: the serial killer she put behind bars 30 years ago has just died, and now investigators, baffled by a new copycat killer, need her expertise. Still traumatized by the events of the past, Julia reluctantly comes out of retirement, leaving her cottage in a picturesque village on Ireland's east coast to travel to Cork, where she is plunged into a race to outwit a clever, relentless murderer who, just like the killer of three decades ago, chillingly chooses victims that are close to Julia. Readers are treated to two stories here: flashbacks to Julia in 1994 as an ambitious new garda working to solve the original serial-killer case, and the seasoned, present-day Julia, who must summon a career's worth of experience and hard-won wisdom to outwit a new killer. This suspenseful story will appeal to readers of contemporary police procedurals like Tana French's Dublin Murder series and Jane Harper's Aaron Falk series.

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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