The Winter Guest

January 1921. Though The Great War has been over for two years, many of the survivors are still struggling to pick up their lives again when so much has been lost. In Ireland, another war has started and the killing and terror continues. When an IRA ambush outside the grand Kilcolgan house goes terribly wrong, and a young woman - Maud Prendeville, eldest daughter of Lord Kilcolgan and a hero of the 1916 Rising - is killed, Captain Tom Harkin, an IRA intelligence officer and Maud's former fiance, is sent to investigate what happened. When Harkin reaches the house it becomes clear that this is not the imposing residence it once was. Half empty and filled with ghosts - both real and imagined - the noble family within co-exist only as the balance of their secrets is kept. Working undercover, Harkin must delve into these secrets - and discover where each family member's allegiances truly lie. But Harkin too is haunted by the past, and by his terrible experiences at the front . And soon, surrounded by faces from the decimated regiment he last saw in Flanders, the past once again takes hold, until he is no longer always certain what is real and what is imagined. There are mysteries at the heart of this house. And Tom's arrival will set into motion a series of events that will once again become deadly . . . A gripping mystery packed with twists and turns, The Winter Guest is the perfect chilling read.