num_pages: 288
description: A modern gothic novel of suspense that reveals through their diaries the story of sisters who fall in love with a beguiling stranger and of the town that turns a blind eye to his murderous waysWhen two sisters and their aunt are found dead in their suburban Dublin home it seems that the secret behind their untimely demise will never be known. But then Niall a young mailman finds a mysterious diary in the post offices dead-letter bin. From beyond the grave Fiona Walsh shares the most tragic love story hes ever heardand her tale has only just begun.Niall soon becomes enveloped by the mystery surrounding itinerant storyteller Jim who traveled through Ireland enrapturing audiences and wooing women with his macabre mythic narratives. Captivated by Jim townspeople across Ireland thought it must be a sad coincidence that horrific murders trailed him wherever he wentand they failed to connect that the young female victims who were smitten by the newest bad boy in town bore an all too frightening similarity to the victims in Jims own fictional plots.The Walsh sisters fiercely loyal to one another were not immune to darling Jims powers of seduction but found themselves in harms way when they began to uncover his treacherous past. Niall must now continue his dangerous hunt for the truthand for the vanished third sisterwhile theres still time. And in the woods the wolves from Jims stories begin to gather.
language: English
title: Darling Jim
publisher: Henry Holt and Co.