{"product_id":"9780008668976","title":"The Counting Game","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Nolan, Sinead \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 19 June 2025 by HarperCollins Publishers (HarperNorth) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 384 pages\u003cbr\u003e241 x 163 x 35 | 596g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*A SUNDAY INDEPENDENT HOT DEBUT AUTHOR OF 2025*\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Into the woods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Count to ten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Only one of us comes home again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  1995, Ireland. Panic grips the village of Drumsuin when a teenage girl goes missing in the nearby forest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Saoirse is not the first girl to disappear in those woods. And when it’s revealed she was playing the Counting Game that day – a ritual believed to ward off the forest’s evils – old superstitions send the community into turmoil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e One person saw what happened to Saoirse. But 9-year-old Jack won’t tell the Gardai. Freya, an English psychotherapist with her own history of grief, is brought in to help the investigators break his silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e As the race to find Saoirse alive accelerates, can Freya make Jack talk? Why is he keeping the forest’s secrets? And who is hell bent on driving Freya out of Drumsuin before the truth is discovered?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Counting Game is a deeply haunting, atmospheric and emotional mystery, from an unmissable new voice in Irish crime fiction, perfect for fans of Tana French, Erin Kelly and Belinda Bauer\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55462120751479,"sku":"9780008668976","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9780008668976.jpg?v=1752833015","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.co.uk\/products\/9780008668976","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}