Into the Woods, One Secret Counts
In 1995 rural Ireland, a teenage girl disappears after playing the “Counting Game” in the woods and a nine-year-old boy won’t speak. Psychotherapist Freya Hemmings is brought in to unravel the silence – but every trail leads into deeper darkness. The Counting Game is a tense, atmospheric Irish crime debut.
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Into the Woods, One Secret Counts
In 1995 rural Ireland, a teenage girl disappears after playing the “Counting Game” in the woods and a nine-year-old boy won’t speak. Psychotherapist Freya Hemmings is brought in to unravel the silence – but every trail leads into deeper darkness. The Counting Game is a tense, atmospheric Irish crime debut.
- Book Synopsis
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*A Sunday Independent hot debut author of 2025*
Into the woods. Count to ten. Only one of us comes home again.
1995, Ireland. Panic grips the village of Drumsuin when a teenage girl goes missing in the nearby forest. Saoirse is not the first girl to disappear in those woods. And when it’s revealed she was playing the Counting Game that day – a ritual believed to ward off the forest’s evils – old superstitions send the community into turmoil.
One person saw what happened to Saoirse. But 9-year-old Jack won’t tell the Gardaí.
Freya, an English psychotherapist with her own history of grief, is brought in to help the investigators break his silence.
As the race to find Saoirse alive accelerates, can Freya make Jack talk? Why is he keeping the forest’s secrets? And who is hell bent on driving Freya out of Drumsuin before the truth is discovered?
*The Counting Game* is a deeply haunting, atmospheric and emotional mystery, from an unmissable new voice in Irish crime fiction – perfect for fans of Tana French, Erin Kelly and Belinda Bauer.
- About The Author
- Sinéad Nolan grew up playing between the forests and beaches of leafy County Dublin, Ireland. She holds a degree in Creative Writing from University of Derby and a Masters in Newspaper Journalism from Nottingham Trent University. She has been a regular freelance feature writer for the Sunday World, the Irish Independent and has had short stories shortlisted for the Momaya Press Awards and the Francis McManus awards for RTE Radio.Apart from writing, her other profession is Counselling and Psychotherapy. She works in private practice as a BACP Registered Counsellor in central London. In the moments she is not writing, she enjoys watching true crime documentaries, travelling and reading. She lives with her husband and three food-obsessed cats in London.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780008668983
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- HarperNorth, (19 June 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 336
- Weight
- 480 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 153 x 32 mm
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