The Belladonna Maze

Hollowpark is an old house with a deadly poison maze, where a young girl once went missing and was never seen again. Grace comes to Hollowpark as a nanny for Skye FitzMahon, and the mysterious past of Hollowpark has seduced her. The book is praised for its vivid characters, sumptuous setting, and expertly crafted thread of malevolence. It is a terrific novel with more twists and turns than the maze itself.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 03 August 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

From bestselling crime novelist and renowned Irish TV journalist Sinéad Crowley, this gripping dual timeline entwines in this heart-stopping story of old secrets and forbidden passion. An old house can hold many secrets. Hollowpark in the west of Ireland certainly does. At the heart of the gardens is an intricate maze, named after a deadly poison, Belladonna. If you know the way through, it's magical, a hiding place and playground like no other. If you don't, it's a place of fear and sinister riddles, where a young girl once went missing and was never seen again. Grace comes to Hollowpark as a nanny for young Skye FitzMahon. Soon, the mysterious past of Hollowpark has seduced her. Who is the woman she sometimes glimpses in an upstairs window? Or the apparition who keeps showing up unexpectedly, pleading, "Find me"? And how can she fight her growing attraction to Skye's father?

Praise for Sinéad Crowley: "Everything you'd want from a suspenseful mystery: vivid characters, a sumptuous setting, and an expertly crafted thread of malevolence."

Irish Times

Beautifully written, and deftly plotted... So compelling that the pages almost turned themselves. A terrific novel.

Liz Nugent

Compelling, clever, and deeply romantic, the plot has more twists and turns than the maze itself... A welcome return to fiction by one of Ireland's most accomplished crime writers... A joy to read.

Jane Casey

Atmospheric, creepy, utterly engrossing, and as twisty-turny as the maze itself.

Tammy Cohen

Weight: 272g
Dimension: 195 x 130 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781801105651