Too Close For Comfort

Would you trust your neighbour with your life?

Niamh O'Connor is one of Ireland's best known crime authors. She is the true crime editor for the Sunday World, Ireland's biggest selling Sunday newspaper. Her job, in which she interviews both high profile criminals and their victims, means she knows the world she is writing about. If I Never See You Again went to number one in the Nielsen Heatseekers chart when it was released as in the UK in January 2011. If I Never See You Again was nominated in the Best Newcomers category of the Irish Book Awards in November 2010. The follow up novel, Taken, was a number two bestseller in Ireland in June 2011.

The Vanishing Triangle 
A woman's body is found in Ireland's most notorious body dump zone, an area in the Dublin mountains where a number of women disappeared in the past. 
 
Nun's Cross 
The victim is from an exclusive gated development in the suburbs - where the prime suspect in the vanishing triangle cases, Derek Carpenter, now lives. It looks like the past is coming back to haunt the present. 
 
But DI Jo Birmingham doesn't believe the case is open and shut. Her husband Dan was part of the original investigation team; is she trying to protect her own fragile domestic peace? 
The one person who could help her crack the case, Derek's wife Liz, is so desperate to protect her family that she is going out of her way to thwart all efforts to establish the truth. 
Can both women emerge unscathed?

Taken

A child is abducted. How far would you go to save him?

Gripping, terrifying. If you like Martina Cole, you'll love this

Niamh O'Connor has written five successful true crime books, and burst onto the burgeoning Irish thriller scene last year with her first Jo Birmingham adventure, If I Never See You Again, which was a best-seller. With Taken, O'Connor has pulled off the elusive feat of delivering a second novel that betters the original

Niamh O'Connor is one of Ireland's best known crime authors. She is a crime reporter with the Sunday World, Ireland's biggest selling Sunday newspaper, for whom she has written five true crime books which were given away with the newspaper. Her job, in which she interviews both high profile criminals and their victims means she knows the world she is writing about.

A beautiful woman 
Model and it-girl Tara Parker Trench is famous across Ireland - with her beauty, glittering lifestyle and perfectthree-year-old son Presley, she seems to have it all. 
 
A stolen child 
Until, one cold wet Dublin night, Tara pulls into a service station for petrol, leaving Presley strapped into the back of her car. Five minutes later he's gone, kidnapped while his mother's back was turned. 
 
A hidden world 
Tara, terrified and hysterical, begs DI Jo Birmingham to help her find her child. But why doesn't Tara want the public to know he's missing? Soon, Jo is drawn into a dark underworld of corruption and extortion, where sex is a commodity, and life is cheap. Who is really telling Jo the truth about the missing little boy- and who's got too much to hide? 
 
A gripping crime novel, with an unforgettable heroine - welcome to the dark side of Dublin's Fair City

If I Never See You Again

'Gripping, terrifying - if you like Martina Cole, you'll love this.' Endorsed by Tess Gerritsen, this is the first in a compulsive new series by Transworld's newest crime-writing star.

Gripping, terrifying, memorable. Jo Birmingham is my sort of heroine.

This is a formidable debut... gritty, downbeat and realistic.  Highly recommended,

Niamh O'Connor is one of Ireland's top true-crime journalists with exclusive access to some of the country's most terrifying criminals. By days she's to be found in the central criminal court, preferably on the bench beside the accused and directly opposite the jury. By night, she's mostly on the phone to cops, criminals and their victims. 
 
A reporter for Ireland's biggest selling Sunday newspaper, the Sunday World, she knows first-hand the world she's writing about, and which she's drawn upon in her first novel, If I Never See You Again.

The Detective 
Meet Jo Birmingham. Single mum, streetwise detective, and spiky as hell. Recently promoted, she is one of the few female detective superintendents on the Dublin police force. But with a failed marriage behind her and two young sons at home, trying to strike the right work-life balance has run her ragged. 
 
The Serial Killer 
When Jo identifies the missing link in a chain of brutal killings, she comes under fierce scrutiny from her male colleagues in the force, especially her boss and ex-husband Dan Mason. But as the body count rises, so do the body parts. As fear stalks the city, it soon becomes obvious both to the police and to the media that a serial killer is at large. 
 
A Terrifying Game of Cat and Mouse 
And so Jo embarks on a terrifying psychological journey to find out who the killer is, and how he is choosing his victims. Soon she is involved in a deadly game in which there are no rules. Because the killer is waiting for her...

Niamh O'Connor

‘Excellent and gripping . . . a riveting read . . . bang on the zeitgeist’

A hitman 
DI Gavin Sexton is looking into a spate of teenage suicides when he encounters a young girl, paralyzed with locked-in syndrome. Unable to communicate in any other way, she blinks the words: ‘I hired a hitman’. 
Was it suicide? 
Recovering from loss of sight, Sexton’s old partner DI Jo Birmingham is keeping her promise to investigate the apparent suicide of Sexton’s own wife, Maura. But why does he no longer seem to care? 
Secrets thrive on stigma 
Sexton believes the girl who cannot move has suffered enough. But how far should he go to protect her? And what if Jo discovers an uncomfortable truth? 
Blink will grab you from the first page, and won’t let go.

Niamh O'Connor

Praise for Blink

‘Excellent and gripping . . . a riveting read . . . bang on the zeitgeist’

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