The Counting Game

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 Gardai. 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

Product details

• Authors: Sinead Nolan, Sinéad Nolan
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 19.06.2025
• EAN: 9780008668976
• ISBN: 978-0-00-866897-6
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 240 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION / Crime, Crime & mystery, Kerry, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Crime & mystery: women sleuths, Thriller / suspense, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Social issues, Ireland, Horror & ghost stories, Psychological thriller, Contemporary horror and ghost stories, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, Myths and Legends / Mythic fiction