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Louise Hegarty

Biography

Louise Hegarty

Louise Hegarty’s work has appeared in Banshee, the Tangerine, the Stinging Fly and the Dublin Review, and has been featured on BBC Radio 4’s Short Works. She was the inaugural winner of the Sunday Business Post/Penguin Ireland Short Story Prize. Her short story “Getting the Electric” has been optioned by Fíbín Media. She lives in Cork, Ireland.

Louise Hegarty

Books by Louise Hegarty

by Louise Hegarty - Fiction, Mystery

A group of friends gather at an Airbnb on New Year’s Eve. It is Benjamin’s birthday and his sister Abigail is throwing him a jazz-age Murder Mystery themed party. As the night plays out, champagne is drunk, hors d’oeuvres consumed and relationships forged, consolidated or frayed. Someone kisses the wrong person; someone else’s heart is broken. In the morning, all of them wake up --- except Benjamin. As Abigail attempts to wrap her mind around her brother’s death, an eminent detective arrives determined to find Benjamin's killer. In this mansion, suddenly complete with a butler, gardener and housekeeper, everyone is a suspect and nothing is quite as it seems.  Will the culprit be revealed? And how can Abigail, now alone, piece herself back together in the wake of this loss?