<p><b>From the bestselling author of <i>What You Did</i> comes a true-crime investigation that cast a dark shadow over the Ireland of her childhood.</b></p><p>Ireland in the 1990s seemed a safe place for women. With the news dominated by the Troubles, it was easy to ignore non-political murders and sexual violence, to trust that you weren’t going to be dragged into the shadows and killed. But beneath the surface, a far darker reality had taken hold.</p><p>Through questioning the society and circumstances that allowed eight young women to vanish without a trace―no conclusion or conviction, no resolution for their loved ones―bestselling crime novelist Claire McGowan delivers a candid investigation into the culture of secrecy, victim-blaming and shame that left these women’s bodies unfound, their fates unknown, their assailants unpunished. </p><p>McGowan reveals an Ireland not of leprechauns and craic but of outdated social and sexual mores, where women and their b