Overview
Into the woods. Count to ten. Only one of us comes home again. 'Sinead Nolan is one to watch' KARIN SLAUGHTER 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
Full Product Details
Author: Sinéad Nolan
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint: HarperNorth
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.260kg
ISBN: 9780008669010
ISBN 10: 0008669015
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 23 April 2026
Audience:
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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Reviews
‘This is an astonishing study of guilt and grief wrapped up in a mystery that points to a very dark time in Irish history. It is both intriguing and enthralling and beautifully written’ Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond ‘Beautifully crafted, chillingly atmospheric’ LoveReading Debut of the Month ‘Clever and compulsive’ Irish Examiner
LoveReading Debut of the Month: ‘beautifully crafted, chillingly atmospheric’ Irish Examiner: ‘Clever and compulsive’
Author Information
Sinead Nolan grew up playing between the forests and beaches of leafy County Dublin, Ireland. She holds a degree in Creative Writing from University of Derby and a Masters in Newspaper Journalism from Nottingham Trent University. She has been a regular freelance feature writer for the Sunday World, the Irish Independent and has had short stories shortlisted for the Momaya Press Awards and the Francis McManus awards for RTE Radio. Apart from writing, her other profession is Counselling and Psychotherapy. She works in private practice as a BACP Registered Counsellor in central London. In the moments she is not writing, she enjoys watching true crime documentaries, travelling and reading. She lives with her husband and three food-obsessed cats in London.
