Those We Left Behind

Author: Neville, Stuart

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 5 May 2016 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 384 pages
132 x 197 x 26 | 270g

A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICKDCI Serena Flanagan is forced to confront a disturbing case from her past: the murder conviction of a 12-year-old-boy who has just been released from prisonDCI Serena Flanagan hasnt heard the boys name in years. Not since the blood on the wall and the body in the bedroom. Not since she listened as he confessed to brutally murdering his foster father. But now Ciaran Devine is out of prison and back in her life. And so is his brother, Thomas the brother that Flanagan always suspected of hiding something.

When Ciarans probation officer comes Flanagan with fresh fears about the Devines, the years of lies begin to unravel, setting a deadly chain of events in motion.

Deeply chilling, but full of tendernessutterly compelling The best book yet from a hugely talented writerSunday Mirror A quietly superb, sensitive plotThe Times A must readIrish Times ‘DCI Serena Flanagan is the hero for whom we’ve all been waiting’Megan Abbott