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If These Walls Could Talk
- Author
- Michelle McDonagh
- Narrator
- Michele Moran
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland
- Publish Date
- 16 July 2026
- Run Time
- 9 hours 17 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Hazel McDermott is on the phone with her husband Darragh when she hears the screech of tyres. The jeep he was driving is soon found, overturned in a field off the motorway, but Darragh has vanished.
As the days pass and the Gardaí investigate, Hazel's carefully built life starts to crumble. She soon discovers that her charismatic property developer husband has been keeping secrets - personal and financial - that could put her family's safety and future at risk. But where is he? Is something sinister afoot, after he got into bed with the wrong people? And what is the connection to an abandoned mental asylum in a small town in County Galway? The answer, when she eventually gets it, will shock Hazel beyond belief.
Taut, unsettling, rich with suspense, If These Walls Could Talk is a gripping West of Ireland thriller about deception, obsession and the haunting truths we hide - even from those closest to us.
'Dark, endlessly twisty' Amy Jordan
'Taut and terrific' Gill Perdue
'Gripping' Catherine Kirwan
Critics Review
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No one does rural noir like Michelle McDonagh ... Cleverly plotted. Deftly executed. A taut and terrific read!
Gill Perdue
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Michelle McDonagh delivers secrets and suspense with a journalist's eye for both the details and the wider context. If These Walls Could Talk is a gripping read that will have McDonagh's many fans turning the pages late into the night
Catherine Kirwan
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If These Walls Could Talk is Michelle's best book yet. A dark, endlessly twisty thriller that is genuinely shocking, this book will keep you up all night. Every wife's nightmare, it is truly unputdownable
Amy Jordan
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Another winner from Michelle McDonagh, who never fails to deliver suspenseful and emotionally taut Irish rural thrillers
Carmel Harrington
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Terrific ... gripping
The Irish Times
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Ireland's queen of rural noir ... a masterclass in psychological suspense ... a roller-coaster ride of a novel ... tautly plotted, unsettlingly atmospheric and grips the reader until its shocking denouement
Sunday Independent
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Terrific ... gripping
The Irish Times
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Details
- Author
- Michelle McDonagh
- Narrator
- Michele Moran
- Duration
- 9 hours 17 minutes
- Release Date
- 16 July 2026
- ISBN
- 9781399737937
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland
- Genre
- Psychological thriller
Synopsis
SUSPENSE LIES IN THE SHADOWS OF RURAL IRELAND...Hazel McDermott is on the phone with her husband Darragh when she hears the screech of tyres. The jeep he was driving is soon found, overturned in a field off the motorway, but Darragh has vanished.As the days pass and the Gardaí investigate, Hazel's carefully built life starts to crumble. She soon discovers that her charismatic property developer husband has been keeping secrets - personal and financial - that could put her family's safety and future at risk. But where is he? Is something sinister afoot, after he got into bed with the wrong people? And what is the connection to an abandoned mental asylum in a small town in County Galway? The answer, when she eventually gets it, will shock Hazel beyond belief.Taut, unsettling, rich with suspense, If These Walls Could Talk is a gripping West of Ireland thriller about deception, obsession and the haunting truths we hide - even from those closest to us.'Dark, endlessly twisty' Amy Jordan'Taut and terrific' Gill Perdue'Gripping' Catherine Kirwan
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