Nina

A feminist, redemptive crime novel about a woman searching for her lost daughter, perfect for fans of Charlie Donlea, Laura Lippman and Ashley Flowers.

On the eve of her sixty-first birthday, Elizabeth Harte decides to run away from home, where she is living with her daughter and son-in-law. Elizabeth has experienced deep trauma in her life, including the disappearance of her daughter Nina twenty-five years ago, leaving her feeling trapped and lost. She is determined to find her daughter in order to make amends with her past. She soon crosses path with a young autistic girl called April, and it’s this relationship, alongside Elizabeth’s determination to find Nina, that forges an awakening within her.

Meanwhile, disgraced detective Nick is revisiting a series of cold cases for the Irish police. His father worked Nina’s case back in the day, and came up empty-handed, and in despair, took his own life. Soon, young women start to go missing and are found murdered, with a pattern emerging.

When Elizabeth reaches out to Nick to discuss her daughter’s vanishing, he realizes his cold cases are a crucial lead to stopping this killer from striking again in this emotional pageturner.

Dublin-born crime author Louise Phillips is an Irish Times bestselling author of six crime novels, five of which were shortlisted for the Best Irish Crime Novel of the Year in the Irish Book Awards. Her second novel, The Doll’s House, won the award. She has also been longlisted for the Crime Writers Association (CWA) Dagger in the Library Award in the UK for her body of work, and her fifth novel, The Hiding Game, was optioned by a major US film company.