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I CONFESS

Alex Barclay

  • Original Title: I CONFESS
  • Publication date: April 2020
  • Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS
  • Country: IE
  • 354 print pages
  • Crime fiction/Psychological Thriller

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  • Epoch: Contemporary
  • Time Period: 21st century
  • Location setting: Ireland
  • Themes: PEOPLE facing life, Search for the truth, Death, PEOPLE facing the extraordinary, Manipulation, Revenge, Psychological dysfunction, Rivalry, SOCIETY DYSFUNCTIONS, Violence, SOCIAL CHRONICLES, Friendship

Pitch

When a group of friends gather on a stormy night for a dinner party, no-one expected death to be part of their night. But after they discover a body on the house’s premises they realise a murderer is among them. They must figure out who is to blame before anyone else is harmed.

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Eve "Alex" Barclay left the fashion industry in 2003 to write crime novels. She won the Ireland AM Crime Fiction Award at the Irish Book Awards for her third novel, BLOOD RUNS COLD. As a crime writer, she has sold a total of 296,900 books for £1.2m. through BookSCan, with her bestseller THE CALLER (Harper) at 78,682 copies sold.

Summary

They won’t all live to tell the tale…

Seven friends. One killer. No escape...

A group of childhood friends are reunited at a luxury inn on a remote west coast peninsula in Ireland. But as a storm builds outside, the dark events that marred their childhoods threaten to resurface.

And when a body is discovered, the group faces a shocking realisation: a killer is among them, and not everyone will escape with their lives...


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    Eve "Alex" Barclay left the fashion industry in 2003 to write crime novels. She won the Ireland AM Crime Fiction Award at the Irish Book Awards for her third novel, BLOOD RUNS COLD. As a crime writer, she has sold a total of 296,900 books for £1.2m. through BookSCan, with her bestseller THE CALLER (Harper) at 78,682 copies sold.