Product Description
The Trial
Author: Jo Spain
Format: Paperback
2014, Dublin: at St Edmunds, an elite college on the outskirts of the city, twenty-year-old medical student Theo gets up one morning, leaving behind his sleeping girlfriend, Dani, and his studies – never to be seen again. With too many unanswered questions, Dani simply can’t accept Theo’s disappearance and reports him missing, even though no one else seems concerned, including Theo’s father.
Ten years later, Dani returns to the college as a history professor. With her mother suffering from severe dementia, and her past at St Edmunds still haunting her, she’s trying for a new start. But not all is as it seems behind the cloistered college walls – meanwhile, Dani is hiding secrets of her own.
‘Jo Spain never disappoints’ — Chris Whitaker
‘Compelling, enthralling and entertaining’ — Liz Nugent
‘Jo Spain at her brilliant best: non-stop tension, clever twists and turns, and nothing is ever as it seems’ — Andrea Mara
‘So vivid, atmospheric and chilling’ — Claire Douglas
‘The queen of the corkscrew plot’ — Sunday Times Crime Club
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