To The Last Page

Although there are a few unusual features, the mystery of a woman’s disappearance from her cottage in a little village outside Dublin isn’t a particularly complicated one, and despite the lead detective’s frustration, you can see where his superiors are coming from when the Irish police they decide to drop the case soon afterwards. There really isn’t much in the way of leads to follow, there’s no indication of abduction, no suspects and no body. To all intents and purposes, there’s no crime. But there are those unusual features… For a start, Lillian, the missing woman, has disappeared right before the eyes of her friend Orla, who is chatting to her at the time on a Skype call from London. Excited about her return to her home town in Ardgreevy where she is planning to get engaged to former rugby player Aidan and start out on a new business venture, Lillian interrupts the conversation to answer the door and never comes back. To Orla’s great horror, she then sees the house become engulfed...