All the Things You Are

Declan Hughes

jun 2014 · Severn House Publishers Ltd

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When her husband and two daughters disappear, housewife Clare Taylor discovers that her ordinary domestic life has been built on a lie.

About to turn forty, her youthful dreams of becoming an actress abandoned, there's no doubt in her mind that suburban wife and mother-of-two Clare Taylor has settled. A wild week in Chicago may have shaken things up a bit, but as she turns her key in her Madison, Wisconsin home on the eve of Hallowe'en, she knows that what happened with her ex was nothing more than a distraction, that this is where her life is. Except it's all gone. The furniture gone, the house stripped, her husband Danny, her daughters, all gone; no message; no note, nothing. Outside in the dark, searching for a sign, she steps in one: the eviscerated body of the family dog. By dawn next morning, her supposedly mortgage-free home has been foreclosed against, one of Danny's childhood friends lies dead in her backyard, and Clare is caught up in a nightmare that began with her husband on Hallowe'en night, 1976. A nightmare that reaches its terrifying climax thirty-five years later.

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Declan Hughes is an Irish novelist, playwright and screenwriter. He was born in 1963 and grew up in Dalkey, a suburb of Dublin. He was educated at Marian College, Ballsbridge and Trinity College, Dublin. He received the Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel in 2007 for his debut crime novel, The Wrong Type of Blood, which introduced Irish-American detective, Ed Loy. Loy was named in homage to the character Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon, as a loy is a traditional Irish spade. Other titles in the Ed Loy Series include; The Color of Blood, The Price of Blood, All the Dead Voices and City of Lost Girls. Declan's most recent novel is entitled All the Things You Are.