Darkhouse
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Publisher Description
EVERYTHING YOU NEVER EXPECTED. Escaping New York for the beautiful Irish Isle seemed the best way to escape the past for NYPD detective Joe Lucchesi and his family. But following the death of a girl in the local village, Joe soon finds out that the killer is closer to his past than he would care to remember.
From a broken childhood comes an unbreakable and deadly bond.
In New York, when a routine investigation comes to a violent and tragic end, Detective Joe Lucchesi takes leave from the NYPD and moves with his wife and son to a quiet village on the south-east coast of Ireland. But their lives are torn apart when a young girl goes missing and the village closes ranks.
Desperate to protect his family, Joe sets out to find the truth and uncovers a trail that leads back across the Atlantic to a Texan backwater, where decades earlier, a chilling pact bound two teenage boys forever in a dark and twisted loyalty.
Reviews
Darkhouse is a terrific debut by an exciting new writer’ The Independent on Sunday
'With no-hold, non-stop action moving seamlessly between North Texas, New York and Waterford, Barclay confidently delivers a knockout first novel’ The Irish Times
‘This rips along and shows great technique for a debut novel. Take my word for it we will hear more of young Barclay' The Irish Independent
‘Darkhouse meets all the criteria of a good thriller – scary moments, twists, and page-turning hooks…Darkhouse will guarantee you a few sleepless nights’ Irish Evening Echo
‘Alex Barclay’s dark, suspenseful novel is the chiller-thriller of the Summer’ Saga Magazine
‘Darkhouse is a ride worth buckling your belt for’ Sunday Business Post
‘Gripping…with shades of Patricia Cornwell’ Sunday Tribune
About the author
Alex Barclay lives outside Dublin. Darkhouse is a debut novel.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A bestseller in the U.K. and Ireland, Irish author Barclay's somewhat predictable debut is unlikely to meet similar success in the States, where it will struggle to stand out among many similarly themed books. Det. Joe Lucchesi has left his position with the NYPD after witnessing a botched rescue attempt that claimed the life of a little girl and her mother. In an effort to recover, Joe, his wife and their teenage son, Shaun, begin a new life in a quiet Irish backwater, but the tranquility is short-lived; Shaun's girlfriend is abducted and murdered in a manner suggesting a link to a serial killer, the local cops suspect Shaun and disdain Joe's help, and clues turn up that point to a connection to Joe's last case with the NYPD. The serviceable writing does little to elevate this above the dozens of other cop vs. grudge-holding serial killer stories.
