A prolific Galway author is proof-positive that crime really does pay – because Sheila Bugler is about to release her latest blockbuster, just months after the last one hit the bookshelves.

The Ballinasloe native is moving into double figures with the publication of Black Valley Farm, her latest crime thriller with a massive twist.

These days, she lives with her husband Sean, a criminal defence lawyer, and their teenage children in Eastbourne on England’s Sussex coast, which the location for her series of crime novels featuring investigative journalist Dee Doran – and she is also the author of a series of crime novels featuring DI Ellen Kelly.

Her last crime thriller, You Were Always Mine – the latest in the Dee Doran series – was published last September to critical acclaim, and now she’s about to release her latest opus onto the market.

This time it’s the story of Clare Brown, an only child whose parents killed in a car crash – or that’s what she wants the world to believe.

The truth soon emerges that, since nine people were found dead at Black Valley Farm a decade ago, Clare has been living a lie.  But now a new podcast on the murders threatens to bring her carefully build life crashing down.

But the 27-year-old isn’t the only one hiding something.  Someone knows she’s lying, and they are going to stop at nothing to ensure the truth never comes to light.

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