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Rebecca Hannigan

Biography

Rebecca Hannigan

Rebecca Hannigan has an MA in Creative Writing Crime Fiction from UEA, graduating in 2023. She won the UEA/Little Brown Crime Prize for her dissertation. She has also been shortlisted for Virago/The Pool’s Best New Crime Writer. Born in England to Irish parents, she now resides in Essex with her husband, cat and a variety of increasing cat-battered houseplants.

Rebecca Hannigan

Books by Rebecca Hannigan

by Rebecca Hannigan - Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

On the night of the Summer Solstice in '99, nine-year-old Roisin O’Halloran marched into the Hanging Woods, the mysterious copse that had inspired fear in decades of children in the small Irish town of Bannakilduf. She was never seen again. Twenty years later, two women are drawn together to discover the truth of what happened to Roisin: Roisin’s older sister Deedee and Roisin’s childhood best friend Caitlin. Reluctantly brought together after decades of mistrust, Caitlin and Deedee must reckon with their shadowy pasts, the monsters that still haunt them and the role they each may have played in Roisin’s disappearance. With old wounds made fresh, the unresolved events of that summer years ago rise to the surface and the truth threatens to reshape the small town that would prefer the past remain buried.