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    The Stopping Place: the heart-stopping new emotional thriller from the author of The Nowhere Girls

    Carmel Harrington

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    From the No. 1 Irish Times bestselling author of The Nowhere Girls and The Stolen Child comes a tense and emotional new thriller.

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    A trip to France is exactly what best friends Cara and Alannah need. Cara's family life has imploded, and Alannah is tired of pretending to be someone she's not.

    Cara sets off on a solo Camino hike across the French Pyrenees, while Alannah stays in town to take a chocolate-making course. They promise to catch up each evening about their separate adventures before reuniting at the end.

    But on the second evening, there is radio silence from Cara, and Alannah starts to worry. Could her friend have gone off grid with a new flirtation, or is something more sinister at play?

    Desperate for answers, Alannah retraces Cara's footsteps along the Camino trail. But the further she goes, the more mysterious Cara's disappearance becomes, and she questions who she can trust.

    Where is Cara, and can Alannah find her before it's too late?

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    Praise for Carmel Harrington:

    'A delightfully twisty mystery' Andrea Mara

    'This complex novel requires faultless plotting, and Harrington pulls it off with consummate ease' Sunday Times

    'Poignant, twisty and so compelling, I couldn't put The Nowhere Girls down' Claire Douglas

    'This high stakes search for the truth has some shocking twists and turns' Gilly Macmillan

    'One of the greatest twists I've ever read' Catherine Ryan Howard

    Readers can't get enough!

    'OMG! Unputdownable! Shocking! Brilliant! Amazing!'

    'I love a book with a twist and this one was both unanticipated until the time was right, and believable - a rare combination! Add it to your pile!'

    'Carmel Harrington at her best. Plot twists & turns on every page!'

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    Carmel Harrington

    Carmel Harrington is a No. 1 bestselling and award-winning author from Ireland. Her novels are published internationally and have been Irish Times, USA Today and Kindle bestsellers.

    Her most recent novel, The Stolen Child, was an Irish Times No. 1 bestseller, a Good Housekeeping Good Books winner, and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Crime Fiction Book of the Year. It was also a Sunday Times Best Crime Fiction of the Year pick. Carmel's next book, The Last Bench, has been chosen by the Reading Agency as one of their Quick Reads for April 2026.

    Carmel is a regular on Irish television and radio, has been a guest speaker at literary events in Ireland, the UK and the USA, and served as Chair of the Wexford Literary Festival for three years. She lives in Wexford with her husband, children and rescue dog George Bailey.

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