Galway Walls Hide Family History and Suspicion
A vanished husband, a Galway asylum and family secrets create a thriller rooted in place as much as plot. Buried history gives the tension weight, making walls, marriages and institutions feel equally capable of hiding evidence and guilt.
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Galway Walls Hide Family History and Suspicion
A vanished husband, a Galway asylum and family secrets create a thriller rooted in place as much as plot. Buried history gives the tension weight, making walls, marriages and institutions feel equally capable of hiding evidence and guilt.
- Book Synopsis
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Hazel McNamara is on the phone with her husband Darragh when she hears the screech of tyres. He screams her name - then, silence. The jeep he was driving is soon found, overturned in a field off the motorway, but Darragh has vanished. As days pass and the Gardaí investigate, Hazel's carefully built life starts to crumble. She soon discovers that her charismatic property developer husband has been keeping secrets - personal and financial - that could put her family's safety and future at risk. But where is he? Is something sinister afoot, after he got into bed with the wrong people? And what is the connection to an abandoned mental asylum in a small town in County Galway? The answer, when she eventually gets it, will shock Hazel beyond belief. Taut, unsettling, rich with suspense, If These Walls Could Talk is a gripping West of Ireland thriller about deception, obsession and the haunting truths we hide - even from those closest to us.
Ideal for readers who:
- Favour Irish thrillers about vanished husbands and lives built on secrets.
- Follow Garda investigations, property-developer danger and family safety under threat.
- Are intrigued by abandoned asylum settings and buried local history.
- Return for suspense where identity matters as much as disappearance.
- About The Author
- Michelle McDonagh is an Irish journalist with over twenty-five years' experience, including twelve years as a staff reporter at the Connacht Tribune. She now works freelance, writing features and health pieces for numerous Irish papers, including The Irish Times. She is married with three children and lives in Cork. She is the author of three novels: There's Something I Have to Tell You, Somebody Knows and Some of This is True.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781399737913
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland, (18 June 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 352
- Weight
- 433 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 232 x 152 x 30 mm
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