
It is revealed that Holly discovered a note from Rosie in Uncle Shay’s drawer and Shay is grilling her about whether she told anyone or not. One day his daughter Holly is working on math problems upstairs at her Uncle Shay’s house and Frank decides to listen in on their conversation. His body is discovered with half a note from the night Rosie disappeared and Frank begins to question the role his brother played in her disappearance. Soon after Rosie’s body is discovered, Frank’s brother Kevin is found dead at Faithful Place from what appears to be a suicide. Rosie’s body is eventually discovered under a cement slab in the basement of number 16 and Frank sets out to identify her killer.

The Dublin Murder Squad takes over the case and make it clear that they do not want Frank to intervene on the case since he has such a strong personal connection to it. After identifying articles of clothing found in the suitcase, Frank goes to Rosie’s parents house and asks them if it would be okay for him to investigate her disappearance and inquire whether they have heard anything from her in the last twenty-two years. When her suitcase is discovered and taken to Frank’s parents house, Frank begins to realize that Rosie’s disappearance might not have been of her own choosing. For twenty-two years Frank and everyone else of Faithful Place believe Rosie to have left for England in search of a new life. He waits for her for hours but then decides to walk away from his home and his family, never looking back. On the night that Frank and Rosie are supposed to meet, Rosie is a no show, forcing Frank to assume that she has changed her mind and left without him. It is decided that they will meet at one of the run down houses of Faithful Place at midnight and run away to England.


In 1985, when Frank and Rosie were nineteen years old they hatched a plan to run away to England together in order to start a new life away from their families and the lack of opportunity. Summary (SPOILER ALERT): Frank Mackey, an undercover detective for the Dublin police squad, returns to his child hood home after twenty-two years upon learning from his sister Jackie that his old girlfriend Rosie Daly’s suitcase has been discovered stuffed behind the fireplace of number 16 Faithful Place. Hardcover $25.95, Paperback $16.00, Kindle $10.99, 400 pagesĪnnotation: Frank had always questioned why Rosie hadn’t shown that night but after a grisly discovery the answers to her disappearance are closer than he thinks.
