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DOWNLOAD ´ Darkest Truth Finn Fitzpatrick Series Book 1 Ughter committed suicide And yet something about the man’s story chimes with Finn Why did a bright confident beautiful young girl suddenly drop out of school Could the answer lie in her relationship with Ireland's most famous film directorThe deeper Finn goes into the case the dark twisted and dangerous the pi. He will do anything to protect his secretsShe will stop at nothing to expose the truthBecause these are powerful people she is trying to exposeAnd they re willing to do anything to keep the truth hidden Finola Finn Fitzpatrick is a Cork solicitor working and living in the city She takes on the less salubrious cases that the other partners do not wish to dirty their hands with But Finn enjoys these alternative cases and the freedom they allow her on a daily basis I was adaptable and discreet useful for doing the messy but necessary work the other solicitors didn t want to do One extremely wet evening as Finn locks up the office she is approached by a man one Sean Carney in an obvious distraught state looking for help His daughter Deirdre committed suicide some time back and he has never truly accepted it as the world would like him to Deirdre had been a normal teenager but at fifteen years old there was a very dramatic change in her personality Deirdre was a film enthusiast and following a time volunteering with the Cork Film Festival a life changing event resulted in a noticeable decline in Deirdre s mental health Sean and his wife Ann need closure and Finn for reasons that eventually become apparent is their last hope in bringing justice and in finally exposing the man they now hold responsible for Deirdre s death He is a renowned movie director a beloved of the Hollywood scene a seemingly untouchable teflon character who has escaped scrutinyuntil now Finn makes a decision to assist the Carneys as there is something about Deirdre s death that pulls her inbut Finn is unaware of the pandora s box she is openingDarkest Truth for me is a novel of two parts The initial stages of the book create the scene and introduce us to the players involved with one very striking player Cork City I am a Cork native born and bred and I always approach books featuring Cork with a little trepidation as my senses are heightened to spotting any mistakes etc Catherine Kirwan felt very strongly that the city of Cork was very important to her storyline and she most definitely brings the city alive throughout the narrative Crossing Patrick Street I cut down Marlboro Street as far as Liam Russell s bookshop and circled back on to Princes Street I thought about the mix of optimism and bravery and foolishness that had led people to settle and build in this damp place I thought about how every so often the water rose fast from the marsh underneath the streets and just as fast drained away leaving ruin in its wake I swung past the grand cast iron gates and into the English Market busy already though it was not yet ten with the usual weekend foodie crowd stocking up on provisions for their Saturday night dinner parties Taking a left at the fountain I passed the wooden steps to the Farmgate restaurant on the balcony went through the arch and got an Americano with milk from Mary Rose This description is so authentic every street each location brought me right into the story as I walked the city with Finn For those not familiar with Cork can I just say that Catherine Kirwan has put incredible detail into the book bringing the setting to lifeThe second part of the book is where Finn begins to make some very frightening discoveries and realises the extent of this web of lies she has become trapped in There is a cloak of secrecy protecting a person protecting an industry Her livelihood her reputation even her life are all on the line as Finn refuses to climb down refuses to stop her search for the truth There is a definite pick up in the pace of the story as the pieces of the jigsaw come together and the mystery behind Deirdre s suicide is slowly unveiledDarkest Truth is a very topical book focusing in on the current Me Too movement mental health grooming and abuse Catherine Kirwan handles all these areas with great sensitivity while also bringing us a novel that will have you eager to turn the pages as you race to the finishDarkest Truth is a very entertaining confident and impressive debut with a very convincing main protagonist This is Finn Fitzpatrick s first appearance and I have no doubt that we will be seeing plenty of her in the future It s really wonderful to see Cork play such an important role in Catherine Kirwan s writing capturing the city in a very uniue fashion

DOWNLOAD ´ Darkest Truth Finn Fitzpatrick Series Book 1 Cture becomesBecause these are powerful people she is trying to expose And they're willing to do anything to keep the truth hidden 'A clever twist on the genre' ARAMINTA HALL author of Our Kind of Cruelty'A gripping twisting novel of mounting suspense It couldn't be relevant' AMY LLOYD author of The Innocent Wif. Brilliantly written book based in my home city of Cork made it appealing In my head I walked the routes in Cork that Finn walked And the places she visited I even know the part of the river that s mentioned in the first chapter Finns family story pulls on the heart strings and has a similar story to a friend of mine Once Finn takes on the case she works so hard to collect the evidence and put the pieces of the jigsaw together I loved the ending definitely leaves it open to a second Finn Fitzpatrick book or better still a series

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DOWNLOAD ´ Darkest Truth Finn Fitzpatrick Series Book 1 He'll do anything to protect his secrets She'll stop at nothing to expose the truth It only takes one person to break the silence When solicitor Finn Fitzpatrick is approached by a man to investigate the death of his daughter her first instinct is to refuse The father is grieving and unable to accept that his da. This is a brilliant crime thriller debut from Catherine Kirwan featuring Finola Finn Fitzpatrick a solicitor set in the small town of Cork in Ireland In a story that held me completely enthralled throughout the contemporary issues surrounding MeToo are addressed in a intelligent and pertinent manner Finn is engaged by Sean and Ann Carney to look into the suicide of their daughter Deirdre suffering depression and self harming since a Cork Film Festival some years previously It is not obvious what Finn can do but she agrees to delve into the man deemed by the Carneys to have ruined their daughter s life A shattering truth fires Finn s determination to seek the truth and she is going to need all her inner resources to survive an opponent that she seriously underestimates as she faces the possibility of losing everything she has her home her job her friends and so much including her lifeIn Finn s efforts to prevent a present day crime she finds herself trending on Twitter as the Irish nation rallies around its golden boy a Hollywood star a campaign led by the potential victim More horror is to dog Finn as she digs deep in her investigation including murder Doubts surface as Finn wonders on occasion if she has the right perpetrator in her sights but the evidence slowly builds about a Hollywood industry where open secrets are acknowledged by insiders but no one is willing to speak openly Finn doesn t care that she might lose everything someone has to break the silence as she finds herself disbelieved at every turn even by the police as she finds herself doing their job Finn s target proves to be manipulative charming volatile arrogant elusive and a chameleon hard to pin down a psychopath whose bullying and misogyny is tolerated by the public and the industryKirwan hits on one of the hottest issues in our contemporary world and handles it sensitively as she weaves a hugely compelling novel around it Finn is a fascinating protagonist adopted and haunted by her birth mother Her emerging relationship with ex addict Davy Keenan now a fitness and gym instructor is fraught with difficulties as she struggles to accept it as a part of her life Living in a small town is a curse and blessing and Finn has a great best friend in the police Sadie O Riordan an essential ally and help to her I have no doubt that this novel will be successful it is well written terrifically plotted atmospheric engrossing and with wonderful characters that I invested in Many thanks to Random House Cornerstone for an ARC