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The Islanders

By: Caroline Mitchell
Narrated by: Willow Nash, Patrick Moy, Roisin O'Neill, Aidan Kelly, Deirdre O'Connell
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She thinks the island will keep her safe—she is wrong.

Traumatised by the death of a child in her care, top London paediatrician Claire seeks refuge on remote Selkie Island in the wilds of the Irish Sea with her husband Daniel and their baby daughter Kitty. Hidden away in Daniel’s old family home, Claire hopes to be as cut off from her guilt as she is from the mainland, but can she find peace in a place so full of its own secrets?

Twenty years earlier, Daniel’s parents left the island in a boat and never made it to the mainland. Mystery surrounds their deaths—and their lives. Why did they set out late at night in a storm? What had really been going on at the house? Even as Claire begins to recover her sense of self amid the island’s rugged beauty, she can’t shake off a chilling suspicion that Selkie Island has a dark history that the locals just can’t face—and that it somehow has a connection to her own life.

When baby Kitty suddenly disappears, Claire’s fragile world falls apart. The only way to secure her future is to uncover the past, but the closer she gets to answers, the more danger she finds herself in. Will she be able to save her family or will the island’s dark secrets take another life?

©2023 Caroline Mitchell. (P)2023 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Crime Thrillers Psychological Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime
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I enjoyed this dark creepy chilling suspense that keeps the reader guessing. I enjoyed the Irish accents of the narrators.

Dark and creepy

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Thoroughly enjoyed this story. It kept me listening with the twists and turns throughout! The narrators were very good, and I liked how there were different narrators for different characters!

Loved it!

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Brilliant story, never saw the twisty ending coming! Would totally recommend. Good book, could not put it down.

Great ending

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Whelile there were some good elements to this book, overall I was disappointed. the pacing was good but the story was too far fetched. The way it touched on folklore was overdone, and diluted the thriller aspect, leaving me unsure what sort of story it was supposed to be. The depictions of life on an Irish island in the 21st century were unrealistic, and teetered on being condescending. It's clear the author has a great affinity for Ireland, and Irish Islands but some of her depictions were dated, if not bizarre.

A bit farfetched

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Good format, enjoyable story telling at its best. A complicated plot expertly navigated by the author. A real page Turner.

Great story, so many twists in the tail,

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