Famished Heart. The Sunday Times Crime Club Star Pick, Paperback/Nicola White

Setting in motion a new 1980s Dublin crime trilogy, }A Famished Heart { explores imbalances of power in relation to religion, gender and marital status. Francesca is back in Dublin from the US, as detectives begin to suspect that there was more to the ostensible double-suicide which has blighted Francesca's family than initially apparent.