The Credit Book

A pensioner dies suddenly, and the mainland laboratory traces the cause to contaminated tinned goods. The batch and till record lead directly to Róise Gallagher's shop.

Gallagher's is closed by order. The island's hub goes dark. Detective Sergeant Ward, to his own misery, must treat Róise as a suspect, while neighbours who have trusted her for years begin looking away.

Róise must clear her shop, her name, and her aunt Bella's legacy while locked out of the counter that has always put her at the centre of island life. The contamination was deliberate, and the victim was not chosen for who he was. Any death would have served the real purpose: destroying Róise's standing and closing Gallagher's.

The attack leads back to her quiet investigation of 1974. A missing page from an old ledger proves that someone has been inside the upstairs room, and that the family secret she has been approaching is no longer safely buried.