The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Marian Keye’s heartbreaking stunner of a novel, The Mystery of Mercy Close, read from the actress Niamh Daly.

Helen Walsh doesn’t have confidence in fear – it’s just a thing invented by men to get all of the money and great jobs – and yet she’s sinking. Her work as a Private Investigator has dried up, her flat has been repossessed and now some outdated demons possess resurfaced.

Not least by means of her charming yet dodgy ex-boyfriend Jay Parker, who shows up on the subject of The Mystery of Mercy Close with a missing persons case. Money is limited and Jay is certainly awash with cash, so Helen is forced to defend myself against the duty of getting Wayne Diffney, the ‘Wacky One’ from boyband Laddz.

Factors ended messily with Jay. And she’s by no means heading back there. Besides she’s a new sweetheart now, the sexy detective Artie Devlin and it’s all heading well. However the reappearance of Jay is definitely stirring up all sorts of stuff she believed she’d left behind.

Playing by her have rules, Helen is drawn right into a dark and glamorous world, where her worst type of foe is her own head and where increasingly the only person she feels connected to is Wayne, a man she’s never even met.

Utterly convincing, moving and incredibly extremely funny, The Mystery of Mercy Close is unlike any novel you’ve ever read and Helen Walsh – courageous, vulnerable and wasp-tongued – is the perfect heroine for our times.

Compliment for Marian Keyes:

‘When it involves writing page-turners that put a smile on your face and make you think, Keyes is in a class of her own’ Daily Express

‘Zips along with participating people, fabulous plotting and spot-on dialogue. Marian Keyes: what a genius’ Daily Mail

Marian Keyes’ international bestselling novels include Rachel’s Vacation, Last Opportunity Saloon, Sushi for Newbies, Angels, The Additional Side from the Tale, Anybody Out There, This Charming Man and The Brightest Star in the Sky. Two choices of her journalism, Beneath the Duvet and Further Beneath the Duvet, are also available from Penguin.