The One You Least Suspect, Brian McGilloway
The One You Least Suspect, Brian McGilloway
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The One You Least Suspect
A gripping, edge-of-your seat thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author

Author: Brian McGilloway

Narrator: Sherelle Kelleher

Unabridged: 8 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/08/2025

Synopsis

'Heart-stopping' ANN CLEEVES

'Genius' STEVE CAVANAGH

'A triumph' IRISH EXAMINER

'Nail-biting' ANDREA MARA

'Exceptional' JOHN CONNOLLY

'Breathlessly exciting' IRISH INDEPENDENT

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Katie lives a quiet life. She likes her small Derry neighbourhood. She likes her job as a barmaid at O'Reillys. And she loves her daughter, Hope.

But everything changes when she is approached by two detectives. They want Katie to tell them the things she hears at work. To become their informant.

In this city, Katie knows the dangers of talking to the police. Yet with Hope's safety at risk should she refuse, she is trapped between two impossible choices.

Crossing the O'Reilly brothers could cost her everything. Her only chance of survival is if she can remain the one that they least suspect . . .

A gripping, heart-wrenching thriller that explores the fine line between right and wrong, justice and revenge, and how you choose your side when everyone is guilty . . .

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'Claustrophobic' IRISH TIMES

'A heart-stopping story' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT

'Truly an edge-of-your-seat book' PATRICIA GIBNEY

'A propulsive read from start to finish' JO SPAIN

'Gritty, heart-stopping . . . I raced through every page' SAM BLAKE

'McGilloway writes beautifully' LITERARY REVIEW

'Gripping and compulsive' CLAIRE ALLAN

'A masterful mystery writer' THE GLOSS MAGAZINE

'My heart hasn't stopped hammering since I started this book' ANDREA CARTER

About Brian McGilloway

Brian McGilloway is the author of thirteen crime novels including the Ben Devlin mysteries and the Lucy Black series, the first of which, Little Girl Lost, became a New York Times and UK No.1 bestseller. In addition to being shortlisted for a CWA Dagger and the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, he is a past recipient of the Ulster University McCrea Literary Award and won the BBC Tony Doyle Award for his screenplay, Little Emperors. He currently teaches in Strabane, where he lives with his wife and four children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Justin on August 04, 2025

So this was a 4.5 for me rounded down. To start with I wasn't sure how I was going to get on with the story. This book felt a bit obvious and formulaic at the start and not really very original. However I found the further I read the more drawn in I became, and as the story fleshed out and more chara......more

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I expected a heart-stopping, thought-provoking thriller from McGilloway, because he always delivers, but by getting inside the head of a vulnerable single mother he shows what a great writer he is

The One You Least Suspect is Brian McGilloway's finest achievement, in a career not short of highlights. An exceptional thriller by an exceptional writer. I devoured it.

Suffocatingly claustrophobic . . . The very best crime fiction speaks about the everyday world we wish we could ignore; The One You Least Suspect speaks with the quiet authority of truth Irish Times

A one-sitting read, brimming with tension, The One You Least Suspect kept me at the edge of my seat from the intriguing opening to the nail-biting end. What a book, one of the best I've read this year. Outstanding.

One of the finest crime writers . . . McGilloway is a genius

A heart-stopping story of criminality and corruption Sunday Independent

Pacey, action and tension-filled, this is a propulsive read from start to finish

This nail-biting thriller explores the fine line between justice and revenge and it's a novel which will be remembered long after you finish it - it's a triumph Irish Examiner

Gritty, heartstopping, compulsive reading, I raced through every page. The One You Least Suspect will keep you up, and not let you go until the last very page

An utterly believable and breathlessly exciting examination of the distrust and suspicion that still permeates post-Good Friday Agreement life in the North from the pen of a true master of Ulster noir crime fiction Irish Independent

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