Tell us about your new crime novel, The Silent Ones
It’s 1980. A baby is found dead on a Kerry beach. Garda Mary Shea, long overlooked by her colleagues, is first on the scene. When suspicion falls on every woman in town, Mary suddenly becomes useful to the men in charge — until their bias threatens to railroad a young woman. To uncover the truth, Mary must risk not just her career, but everything she stands for.
The plot has echoes of the Kerry Babies case
I was a teenager when that case shook my generation. It marked the moment Irish women had enough of the patriarchy. This novel, inspired by those times, asks a simple, searing question: what if a woman was on the force back then?
Are you planning to base a series around Mar
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