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Kala

By: Colin Walsh
Narrated by: Frank Blake, Moe Dunford, Seána Kerslake
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In the seaside town of Kinlough, on Ireland's west coast, three old friends are thrown together for the first time in years. They - Helen, Joe and Mush - were part of an original group of six inseparable teenagers in the summer of 2003, with motherless, reckless Kala Lanann as their group's white-hot centre. Soon after that summer's peak, Kala disappeared without a trace.
Now it's fifteen years later: Helen has reluctantly returned to Ireland for her father's wedding; Joe is a world-famous musician, newly back in town; and Mush has never left, too scared to venture beyond the counter of his mother's café. But human remains have been discovered in the woods. Two more girls have gone missing. And as past and present begin to collide, the estranged friends are forced to confront their own complicity in the events that led to Kala's disappearance, and to try to stop Kinlough's violent patterns repeating themselves once again...
Against the backdrop of a town suffocating on its own secrets, in a story that builds from a smoulder to a stunning climax, Kala brilliantly examines the sometimes brutal costs of belonging, as well as the battle in the human heart between vengeance and forgiveness, despair and redemption.blank©2023 Colin Walsh (P)2023 Altantic Books and W. F. Howes Ltd Crime Thrillers Genre Fiction International Mystery & Crime Literary Fiction Mystery Small Town & Rural Thriller Thriller & Suspense Crime Fiction Emotionally Gripping Heartfelt Suspense
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A book set in small town Ireland with multiple narrators and the shadow of major events earlier in life; this is much, much better than The Bee Sting, whatever the Booker Prize would have you believe.

Superb literary thrilled

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Slow to start but warms you into the winding plot. Believable and relatable. Fantastic narration using multiple readers.

The town next door

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Great narration that really pulls you into the story. I didn’t want it to end and am still thinking about it all after finishing. Great read!!

Engaging and beautifully narrated

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