2019 Edgar Award nominee for Best Book

Can Hurley was a good, charming, and impressive student at Dublin’s elite St. John’s College-and Ireland’s most prolific serial killer. Having stalked his five young victims, he drowned them in the muddy waters of the Grand Canal. Sentenced to life imprisonment when he was just nineteen, Will is usually locked aside in the city’s Central Psychiatric Hospital.

Freshman Alison Smith moved to the Big Smoke to sign up in St. John’s and quickly fell hard for Will about The Liar’s Female Hurley. Her globe bloomed … and imploded when Liz, her best friend, became the latest victim of the Canal Killer-and the Canal Killer ended up being the young man who’d been sleeping in her bed. Alison fled to the Netherlands and, in a decade, hasn’t once looked back.

Whenever a young woman’s body is found in the Grand Canal, Garda detectives visit Will to find out if he can assist them in solving what looks like a copycat getting rid of. Rather, Will tells them he offers something not used to confess-but there’s only one person he’s prepared to confess it to.

The very last thing Alison wants is to be pulled back to the past she’s worked so hard to keep behind. Reluctantly, she profits to the town she hasn’t set foot set for more than a 10 years to face the man who murdered the girl she was likely to become.

Only to discover that, as yet, Will has left out the worst part of all …