Three young women vanished without a trace in Ireland in the 1990s, with their disappearances and murders remaining unsolved due to a culture of secrecy, victim-blaming, and shame. Bestselling crime novelist Claire McGowan investigates the society and circumstances that allowed eight women to disappear without resolution for their loved ones, revealing an Ireland where outdated social norms prioritized perception over women's safety.
Three young women vanished without a trace in Ireland in the 1990s, with their disappearances and murders remaining unsolved due to a culture of secrecy, victim-blaming, and shame. Bestselling crime novelist Claire McGowan investigates the society and circumstances that allowed eight women to disappear without resolution for their loved ones, revealing an Ireland where outdated social norms prioritized perception over women's safety.
Three young women vanished without a trace in Ireland in the 1990s, with their disappearances and murders remaining unsolved due to a culture of secrecy, victim-blaming, and shame. Bestselling crime novelist Claire McGowan investigates the society and circumstances that allowed eight women to disappear without resolution for their loved ones, revealing an Ireland where outdated social norms prioritized perception over women's safety.
From the bestselling author of What You Did comes a true-
crime investigation that cast a dark shadow over the Ireland of her childhood.Ireland in the 1990s seemed a safe place for women. With the news dominated by the Troubles, it was easy to ignore non-political murders and sexual violence, to trust that you weren?t going to be dragged into the shadows and killed. But beneath the surface, a far darker reality had taken hold.In this candid investigation into the society and circumstances that allowed eight young women to vanish without a trace?no conclusion or conviction, no resolution for their loved ones?bestselling crime novelist Claire McGowan delivers a righteous polemic against the culture of secrecy, victim-blaming and shame that left these women?s bodies unfound, their fates unknown, their assailants unpunished.McGowan reveals an Ireland not of leprechauns and craic but of outdated social and sexual mores, where women and their bodies were of secondary importance to perceived