The Counting Game : In 2025, discover this gripping new Irish novel of psychological suspense, dark family secrets, and a mystery hidden deep in a cursed forest... - Amy McAllister

The Counting Game

In 2025, discover this gripping new Irish novel of psychological suspense, dark family secrets, and a mystery hidden deep in a cursed forest...

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Into the woods.

Count to ten.

Only one of us comes home again.

1995, Ireland. Panic grips the village of Drumsuin when a teenage girl goes missing in the nearby forest.

Saoirse is not the first girl to disappear in those woods. And when it's revealed she was playing the Counting Game that day - a ritual believed to ward off the forest's evils - old superstitions send the community into turmoil.

One person saw what happened to Saoirse. But 9-year-old Jack won't tell the Gardai. Freya, an English psychotherapist with her own history of grief, is brought in to help the investigators break his silence.

As the race to find Saoirse alive accelerates, can Freya make Jack talk? Why is he keeping the forest's secrets? And who is hell bent on driving Freya out of Drumsuin before the truth is discovered?

The Counting Game is a deeply haunting, atmospheric and emotional mystery, from an unmissable new voice in Irish crime fiction, perfect for fans of Tana French, Erin Kelly and Belinda Bauer

The Counting Game, the latest masterpiece from Sinead Nolan, delves deep into the rural heart of Ireland, where small town secrets and ancient mythology intertwine. As the detective sleuths through the tales and legends of the town, the reader is drawn into a world of folk fairy stories and thrillers, where every corner holds a new mystery.

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