A New York Times Bestseller ΓÇó A New York Times Notable Book of 2024 ΓÇó A New York Times Best Crime and Best Thriller Novel of 2024 ΓÇó A Washington Post Best Thriller of 2024 ΓÇó An NPR,New York PostChicago Sun-Timesand Globe and Mail Best Book of 2024 ΓÇó A Wall Street JournalParadeand AirMail Best Mystery Book of 2024 ΓÇó An Elle Best Mystery and Thriller Book of 2024 ΓÇ£Extraordinary.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöMaureen CorriganThe Washington Post ΓÇ£Hailed as the queen of Irish crime fictionFrench spins a taut tale of retributionsacrificeand family.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöTIME From the New York Times bestselling author of The Searcher and ΓÇ£one of the greatest crime novelists writing todayΓÇ¥ (Vox)a spellbinding new novel set in the Irish countryside. ItΓÇÖs a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. HeΓÇÖs found itmore or less: heΓÇÖs built a relationship with a local womanLenaand heΓÇÖs gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places. But then TreyΓÇÖs long-absent father reappearsbringing along an English millionaire and a scheme to find gold in the townlandand suddenly everything the three of them have been building is under threat. Cal and Lena are both ready to do whatever it takes to protect Treybut Trey doesnΓÇÖt want protecting. What she wants is revenge. From the writer who is ΓÇ£in a class by herselfΓÇ¥ (The New York Times)a nuancedatmospheric tale that explores what weΓÇÖll do for our loved oneswhat weΓÇÖll do for revengeand what we sacrifice when the two collide.