An incident in Ruby Cooper's sixteenth year tears through a tight Boston church community and keeps causing damage for decades afterwards.
Liz Nugent, who wrote Strange Sally Diamond, structures this suspense novel around consequence rather than mystery alone. Ruby and her sister Erin grow up close; afterwards an ocean divides them, with Ruby settling in Dublin while Erin stays behind, each carrying a different version of what happened. The narrative moves across years and continents, letting the effects of a single event spread through two families. What the incident was, and where it finally leads, are left for the reader to uncover.
Small details, big difference:
• Dual settings in Boston and Dublin, tracked across several decades
• Character-driven suspense that favours slow revelation over chase sequences
• From the author of the international bestseller Strange Sally Diamond
• Examines how a closed religious community handles scandal
Recommended for readers of dark literary suspense and family-secret novels, available at Boipoka.