# The Counting Game - Hardcover

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by **Sinéad Nolan** (Author)

**_Into the woods._**  
**_Count to ten.  
Only one of us comes home again._**

**When a teenager disappears from her small Irish town and a therapist is brought in to break the silence of the only witness, old wounds are opened in a search that becomes a race against time**\--perfect for fans of _God of the Woods_ and _The Witch Elm._

Southwest Ireland, 1995: Two children go into the woods. Only one comes out.

When thirteen-year-old Saoirse Kellough goes missing, panic grips a rural Irish community. Saoirse is not the first girl to disappear in the forest, rumored by locals to be haunted, and the only witness--her troubled younger brother, Jack--refuses to speak. Saoirse went missing when they were playing the Counting Game, a ritual believed to ward off evil, and Jack has sworn to protect the forest's secrets.

Freya Hemmings, a psychotherapist still healing from a loss of her own, is brought in to help investigators break Jack's silence. As the race to find Saoirse alive accelerates, the search threatens to unravel a family facing the unthinkable. Everyone is a suspect, and the closer Freya and Jack become, the more danger they find themselves in.

Haunting and emotional, _The Counting Game_ is a suspenseful debut from an unmissable new voice in crime fiction.

### Author Biography

Sinéad Nolan grew up playing in the forests and on the beaches of leafy County Dublin, Ireland. She was a regular freelance feature writer for the _Sunday World_ and the _Irish Independent_ and has had short stories shortlisted for the Momaya Press Awards and the Francis McManus Awards for RTE Radio. Apart from writing, she works in private practice as a BACP Registered Counsellor seeing clients in central London.

**Number of Pages:** 416

**Dimensions:** 1.4 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN

**Publication Date:** April 07, 2026

## Details

- **Price:** 37.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Crime, Fiction, Horror, Price Written on Book, Suspense, Thrillers

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