With Our Blessing

Praise

Praise for the With Our Blessing:
“Spain’s fully realized characters, brisk plot, and clear-eyed view of Ireland’s painful past engage readers from the start.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Spain’s The Confession (2018) was a best-seller in Ireland, and this well-crafted, riveting work is surely destined for similar success, as it deserves a wide readership in this country as well.”
—Booklist starred review

“Absolutely my comfort reading.”
—Ann Cleeves, Dagger Award-winning author of Vera & the Shetland series

“The novel is razor-sharp…The denouement is fiendishly clever, a climax in the old-fashioned Agatha Christie-esque sense…a big fat twist is lobbed into the ending like a hand grenade.”
—Sunday Independent

“Brilliant! Fast paced, well researched and sensitive. Jo Spain is a sparking new talent.”
—Irish Examiner

“In a very strong year for Irish crime-fiction debuts, Jo Spain’s With Our Blessing is among the most assured…[and] picks at the scabs of recent Irish history to reveal raw and gaping wounds.”
—Declan Burke Irish Times

“Jo Spain writes as good a procedural as you are ever likely to read.”
—Crime Review (UK)