{"product_id":"where-they-lie-an-atmospheric-crime-thriller-about-murder-the-abortion-underground-and-womens-rights-in-1960s-ireland","title":"Where They Lie: An Atmospheric Crime Thriller About Murder, the Abortion Underground, and Women's Rights in 1960s Ireland","description":"\u003cp\u003e“A thrillingly dark and atmospheric tale, richly evocative of its time, especially for those of us old enough to remember 1968.”—John Banville\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome stories demand to be told. They keep coming back, echoing down through the decades, until they find a teller . . .\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 Irish Sentinel 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, Where They Lie 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","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45200952590536,"sku":"BKPB10105676","price":18.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0643\/2034\/0168\/files\/Where_They_Lie.jpg?v=1787840357","url":"https:\/\/theblossomingbookshop.com\/products\/where-they-lie-an-atmospheric-crime-thriller-about-murder-the-abortion-underground-and-womens-rights-in-1960s-ireland","provider":"The Blossoming Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}