{"product_id":"9781668099407","title":"The Counting Game","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eInto the woods.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCount to ten.\u003cbr\u003e Only one of us comes home again.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen a teenage girl disappears from her small Irish town and a therapist is brought in to break the silence of the only witness, old wounds are reopened in a search that becomes a race against time—perfect for fans of Tana French and Liz Nugent.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSouthwestern Ireland, 1995: Two children go into the forest. Only one comes out.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When thirteen-year-old Saoirse Kellough goes missing, panic grips a rural Irish community. Saoirse is not the first girl to disappear in the woods, and the only witness—her troubled younger brother, Jack—refuses to speak. Saoirse went missing when they were playing the Counting Game, a ritual believed to ward off evil, and Jack has sworn to protect the forest’s secrets.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Freya Hemmings, a psychotherapist still healing from the loss of her own daughter, is brought in to help investigators break Jack’s silence. As the race to find Saoirse alive accelerates, the search threatens to unravel a family facing the unthinkable. Everyone is a suspect, and the closer Freya gets to Jack, the more danger she finds herself in.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Haunting and emotional, \u003ci\u003eThe Counting Game \u003c\/i\u003eis a suspenseful debut from an unmissable new voice in crime fiction.","brand":"Sinéad Nolan","offers":[{"title":"Gallery\/Scout Press |  Hardback  |  2026-04-07","offer_id":47342800503039,"sku":"9781668099407","price":42.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_52ed2bc5-2e88-40fc-a3b4-05804ba09820.jpg?v=1760107632","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781668099407","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}