Lie Steal Kill

Neighbors and friends had gathered at the house of Sean and Kitty Forde to celebrate the new year the night before. But by dawn, Gardaí are called to investigate a massacre; the only survivor is their ten-year-old daughter Teresa. Among the bodies, investigators cannot locate Kitty. And then little Teresa begins to talk; she tells them the teenage boy that lives nearby, Freddie Cullen, turned up at the party. She says there was an argument, and that Freddie had a shotgun. She remembers her mother’s screams. Neither Freddie, nor Kitty Forde, can be found. Teresa Forde is now married, with three daughters. She suffers deep scars from the trauma inflicted thirty years ago, and with the recent death of her husband, has grown increasingly fragile. Caring for her falls to her eldest daughter, Abigail. On the first day of the new millennium, Abigail returns to their home to find her sister, Leanora, brutally murdered. Her mother Teresa has vanished. Detective Julia Harte is called in to investigate. This case is unusual; two women – mother and daughter – vanished without a trace, thirty years apart.