The Dark Room is a stand-alone novel about two powerful female protagonists who team up in West Cork to solve a thirty-year-old missing persons case and a suspicious death that each of them is tenuously investigating.
Film location scout, Rachel Lambert, is sent reeling when her partner and documentary maker, Hunter, is knocked off of his bike in a hit-and-run and on the same day his cameras are stolen from the houseboat they share. That one of the subjects of Hunter’s latest documentary, homeless violinist Alfie Bows, has also vanished seems a coincidence too far. In a bid to evade any potential danger in London and discover what caused Alfie to drop out of society Rachel travels to Hare’s Landing in Ireland, the only place that Alfie ever mentioned and now a recently restored coastal country hotel. Meanwhile for Irish New York Messenger investigative crime reporter, Caroline Kelly, a lawsuit and suspension from her demanding role sees her return to West Cork for a much needed retreat. But ever the dogged journalist she can’t resist a mystery and the circumstances surrounding the suicide of the formerly family residences American owner, Honoria Smyth, are far from clear-cut
Film location scout, Rachel Lambert, is sent reeling when her partner and documentary maker, Hunter, is knocked off of his bike in a hit-and-run and on the same day his cameras are stolen from the houseboat they share. That one of the subjects of Hunter’s latest documentary, homeless violinist Alfie Bows, has also vanished seems a coincidence too far. In a bid to evade any potential danger in London and discover what caused Alfie to drop out of society Rachel travels to Hare’s Landing in Ireland, the only place that Alfie ever mentioned and now a recently restored coastal country hotel. Meanwhile for Irish New York Messenger investigative crime reporter, Caroline Kelly, a lawsuit and suspension from her demanding role sees her return to West Cork for a much needed retreat. But ever the dogged journalist she can’t resist a mystery and the circumstances surrounding the suicide of the formerly family residences American owner, Honoria Smyth, are far from clear-cut