The Girl Behind the Lens: A dark psychological thriller with a brilliant twist

by Tanya Farrelly

  Joanna turned and walked back to the car. She drove down to the canal, past the spot where Oliver Molloy had shown her where he’d found the body. Two people were dead, one an unknown man, the other, Mercedes. At least now one death would be vindicated. She would have to live with the legacy the Arnolds had passed on to her, doing the utmost to put it from her mind.

  Acknowledgements

  A big thank you to Lucy Dauman both for her enthusiasm for this novel, and her intuitive editorial suggestions. Thank you to Ian Gregson who supervised an earlier draft of this novel during my studies at Bangor University. For their invaluable feedback and suggestions, I would like to thank my husband, David Butler, as great a writer as he is a man, and also Arlene Hunt and Faith O’ Grady who read previous drafts. For his expertise in the field of photography, I’m indebted to David Hussey, and also to Gosia Walczak whose beautiful photos inspired Joanna’s Runaway Brides collection. For his guidance in the formative years of my writing career, I’d like to thank Martin Devaney, course facilitator. Huge respect and thanks to Alan Hayes of Arlen House, not only for publishing my book When Black Dogs Sing, but for all that he does. Big love and thanks always to Tom, Trevor, and Dani, and to the Butler and Hussey clans. Also to my great friends Antoinette and Adrianna. Above all, thanks to my mother, a creative force, whose beauty and kindness we will never forget.

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  About the author

  Tanya Farrelly works as an EFL teacher and facilitates Creative Writing classes for South Dublin County Council. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Bangor University and her work has shortlisted for several prizes, such as the Hennessy and the Francis MacManus Awards. In 2008 she was named runner-up in the William Trevor International Short Story Competition and her debut short-story collection, When Black Dogs Sing, was published by Arlen House in September 2016. The Girl Behind the Lens is her first full-length novel.

  Tanya lives in Wicklow with her husband and runs a monthly Spoken Word event called Staccato.

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  When Black Dogs Sing (a short story collection)

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