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About the book
Publication Date : 12th July 2026
Publisher : Inkubator Books
Genre : Psychological Thriller
Page Count : 317 pages
Series / Standalone : Standalone
Blurb
Lesley seems like a perfectly normal woman. Until you ask her to leave.
Gillian wants to do right by her elderly Aunt Myra. A safe nursing home. Daily visits. A peaceful final chapter for the woman who has been like a mother to her.
A plan that’s derailed when a stranger turns up on the doorstep claiming to be Myra’s long-lost niece, Lesley. She says she’s here to look after Myra.
Within days, Myra’s bank accounts are being drained and Lesley has taken full control of the house. And Gillian—the woman who has always been there for Myra—isn’t allowed through the door.
When she demands to see her aunt, the threats begin. Smashed windows. A slashed tire. Headlights chasing her down a lonely country road.
But Gillian isn’t backing off.
Suspicious that Lesley isn’t who she says she is, Gillian digs into her past. And discovers a secret far more horrifying than anything she could have imagined.
A chilling, twist-laden thriller about the people we let through the door, and what they take when we do.
About J.M O'Rourke
I hail from Mayo in the west of Ireland, although I spent much of my life away, in the US, UK, Europe, Jersey in the Channel Islands and various parts of Ireland. In my younger years I was incredibly restless. I left home and school at 16 and spread my wings.
I’ve had over forty jobs, everything from barman, labourer, staff newspaper reporter, soldier in the Irish army, station foreman with London Underground, mason, and many more besides. I returned to education as a mature student in the early noughties and hold a BA in history and sociology from the National University of Ireland at Maynooth, and an M.Phil in creative writing (first class honours with distinction) from Trinity College Dublin. Since 2005 I’ve been a civilian employee of the Irish police, An Garda Síochána.
However, I’ve been on extended sick leave since 2015 following a mystery illness which struck while travelling in Spain. It almost killed me. The doctors never got to the bottom of it and they call me the Mystery Man. But every cloud has a silver lining. It has given me the time to write.
Although I’ve been writing all my life, most of my output languishes in the bottom of drawers. Under my real name, Michael Scanlon, I was published for the first time in 2019 by Bookouture with the first of three crime novels. Working with Inkubator is a great opportunity because I think I’ve learned something since becoming published and I want to put it into practice. It is a new departure and I have adopted a pseudonym because the books are so different. I hope readers like them.
J.M O’Rourke’s past adventures with Zooloo’s Book Tours – check out the lineup!
Reviewers Schedule
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12 July | rustic_reads_donna Happilyeverhels |
13 July | inwordsandvoice xkateareadsbooksx |
14 July | Pauline Render |
15 July | moonbooksing Rambling Mads |
16 July | penfoldlayla |
17 July | The Phantom Paragrapher whatrachaelreads |
18 July | staceywh_17 teaandbooks90 |
