{"product_id":"9780063344600","title":"Where They Lie","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“A thrillingly dark and atmospheric tale, richly evocative of its time, especially for those of us old enough to remember 1968.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—John Banville\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn immersive, literary thriller set in 1960s Dublin about an ambitious young female journalist whose investigation of a long missing actress will take her through misty streets and the tangled underworld—and force her to confront the long buried secrets of her own past.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSome stories demand to be told. They keep coming back, echoing down through the decades, until they find a teller . . .\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDublin, 1943. Actress Julia Bridges disappears. She was last seen entering the house of Gloria Fitzpatrick, who is later put on trial for the murder of a woman whose abortion she facilitated. But it’s never proved that Gloria had a hand in Julia’s death—and Julia’s body has never been found. Gloria, however, is sentenced to life in an institution for the criminally insane, where she’s found dead a few years later from an apparent suicide, and the truth of what happened to Julia Bridges dies with her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDublin, 1968. Nicoletta Sarto is an ambitious junior reporter for the \u003cem\u003eIrish Sentinel\u003c\/em\u003e when the bones of Julia Bridges are discovered in the garden of a house on the outskirts of the city. Drawn into investigating the 25-year-old mystery of Julia’s disappearance and her link to the notorious Gloria Fitzpatrick, Nicoletta becomes immersed in the tangled underworld of the illegal abortion industry, stirring up long-buried secrets from her own past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA beautifully atmospheric, timely thriller, \u003cem\u003eWhere They Lie\u003c\/em\u003e uses a murder mystery as a lens to focus on the long struggle of women fighting to achieve autonomy and succeed in a man’s world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Claire Coughlan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":58120594325664,"sku":"9780063344600","price":12.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_02baf100-01fc-44ea-9f1e-c6278aaf1886.jpg?v=1782764935","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780063344600","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}