September 2024

In Kala, lyrical prose meets compulsive crime thriller: I devoured this book! Kala follows three old friends from the West Irish coast who find themselves together for the first time in years in the town where, fifteen years earlier, their wild and intoxicating ringleader, Kala Lanan disappeared. Though they are now adults, worlds apart, Helen, Joe and Mush are all still reckoning with the traumatic events of that summer, and, when history begins to repeat itself, the dark secrets, past and present, of their pleasant tourist hometown begin to unfold at an insatiable pace. I was sceptical at first that…