{"product_id":"where-they-lie-9780063344600","title":"Where They Lie","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A thrillingly dark and atmospheric tale, richly evocative of its time, especially for those of us old enough to remember 1968.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--John Banville\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn immersive, literary thriller set in 1960s Dublin about an ambitious young female journalist whose investigation of a long missing actress will take her through misty streets and the tangled underworld--and force her to confront the long buried secrets of her own past.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSome stories demand to be told. They keep coming back, echoing down through the decades, until they find a teller . . .\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDublin, 1943. Actress Julia Bridges disappears. She was last seen entering the house of Gloria Fitzpatrick, who is later put on trial for the murder of a woman whose abortion she facilitated. But it's never proved that Gloria had a hand in Julia's death--and Julia's body has never been found. Gloria, however, is sentenced to life in an institution for the criminally insane, where she's found dead a few years later from an apparent suicide, and the truth of what happened to Julia Bridges dies with her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDublin, 1968. Nicoletta Sarto is an ambitious junior reporter for the \u003cem\u003eIrish Sentinel\u003c\/em\u003e when the bones of Julia Bridges are discovered in the garden of a house on the outskirts of the city. Drawn into investigating the 25-year-old mystery of Julia's disappearance and her link to the notorious Gloria Fitzpatrick, Nicoletta becomes immersed in the tangled underworld of the illegal abortion industry, stirring up long-buried secrets from her own past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA beautifully atmospheric, timely thriller, \u003cem\u003eWhere They Lie\u003c\/em\u003e uses a murder mystery as a lens to focus on the long struggle of women fighting to achieve autonomy and succeed in a man's world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50597891571986,"sku":"9780063344600","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2a86aadd-a7cc-4da5-b59f-e3b7d2315c9c.jpg?v=1732180525","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/where-they-lie-9780063344600","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}