Northside author produces another fast-paced thriller

BEING held hostage at gunpoint by her childhood friend is not Dr Heather Gilmore’s idea of a good day at work. It only gets worse when she hears that her 19-year-old daughter Leah has been kidnapped. 

Sergeant Claire Boyle wasn’t expecting to get caught up in a hostage situation during a doctor’s appointment. When it becomes apparent that the kidnapping is somehow linked to the hostage-taker, a woman called Eileen Delaney is put in charge of finding the missing girl. 

What happened between Eileen and Heather to make Eileen so determined to ruin her old friend? Claire Boyle must dig up the secrets from their pasts to find out – and quickly, because Leah is still missing and time is running out to save her.

‘One Bad Turn’ by Sinéad Crowley has been described as a “crackingly-paced thriller, featuring a totally believable female detective” by the Sunday Mirror while the Belfast Telegraph declared: “Crowley has created a new twist to the crime-writing genre.”

It was hailed as “sensationally good” by The Irish Times.

Sinéad is Arts and Media Correspondent for RTÉ, where she works for television, radio and online. 

Her debut thriller, ‘Can Anybody Help Me?’, was a bestseller in Ireland, and both it and her second book, ‘Are You Watching Me?’, were shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Crime Book of the Year. 

‘One Bad Turn’ is the third book in the series featuring Sergeant Claire Boyle, arguably modern crime fiction’s most engaging and interesting character for quite some time.

Sinéad, who is a former reporter for this newspaper, lives in Whitehall with her husband and two young sons. She is originally from Walkinstown.