Fleeing Dublin a decade ago after learning her boyfriend Will was a serial killer, Alison is pulled back into the past she's worked so hard to leave behind in order to get Will to help Garda detectives solve what looks like a copycat killing.
2019 Edgar Award nominee for Best Novel
Will Hurley was an attractive, charming, and impressive student at Dublins elite St. Johns Collegeand Irelands most prolific serial killer. Having stalked his five young victims, he drowned them in the muddy waters of the Grand Canal. Sentenced to life imprisonment when he was just nineteen, Will is locked away in the citys Central Psychiatric Hospital.
Freshman Alison Smith moved to the Big Smoke to enroll in St. Johns and soon fell hard for Will Hurley. Her world bloomed
and then imploded when Liz, her best friend, became the latest victim of the Canal Killerand the Canal Killer turned out to be the boy whod been sleeping in her bed. Alison fled to the Netherlands and, in ten years, has never once looked back.
When a young womans body is found in the Grand Canal, Garda detectives visit Will to see if he can assist them in solving what looks like a copycat killing. Instead, Will tells them he has something new to confessbut theres only one person hes prepared to confess it to.
The last thing Alison wants is to be pulled back into the past shes worked so hard to leave behind. Reluctantly, she returns to the city she hasnt set foot in for more than a decade to face the man who murdered the woman she was supposed to become.
Only to discover that, until now, Will has left out the worst part of all
