Book description
A SERIAL KILLER. A missing schoolgirl is found buried in the Dublin
Mountains, hands clasped together in prayer, two red ribbons in her
hair. Twenty-four hours later, a second schoolgirl is found in a shallow
grave - her body identically arranged. A hunt for the killer is on. THE
CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGIST. The police call in profiler Dr Kate Pearson to
get inside the mind of the murderer before he strikes again. But the
more Kate discovers about the killings, the more it all feels
terrifyingly familiar. THE ACCUSED WOMAN. As the pressure to find the
killer intensifies, there's one vital connection to be made - Ellie
Brady, a mother institutionalised fifteen years earlier for the murder
of her daughter Amy. She stopped talking when everyone stopped
listening. What connects the death of Amy Brady to the murdered
schoolgirls? As Kate Pearson begins to unravel the truth, danger is
closer than she knows... The bad man is everywhere. Can you see him?
Born in Dublin, Louise Phillips returned to writing in 2006, after
raising her family. That year, she was selected by Dermot Bolger as an
emerging talent in the county. Louise's work has been published as part
of many anthologies, including County Lines from New Island, and various
literary journals. In 2009, she won the Jonathan Swift Award for her
short story Last Kiss, and in 2011 she was a winner in the Irish
Writers' Centre Lonely Voice platform. She has also been short-listed
for the Molly Keane Memorial Award, Bridport UK, and long-listed twice
for the RTE Guide/Penguin Short Story Competition. In 2012, she was
awarded an Arts Bursary for Literature from South Dublin County Council.
Red Ribbons is her debut novel. Her second novel, The Doll's House, will
be published by Hachette Books Ireland in 2013.
