I could hear Dennis talking to my ma. 'She was little,' he said. 'Little like me. But old. Older than you. Those words gave me a cold shock. I could see Dennis imagining fairies, but old ones?

When Bobby's mother moves the family into a rented house in the country, a neighbour tells him that a child was once murdered there. Bobby doesn't care. All he wants is to get back to Dublin and to resume his wild life there, stealing from the crowded shopping streets and racing stolen cars at night. But getting his old life back doesn't turn out to be so easy, and the longer he spends in the old cottage, the more convinced he becomes that something very strange is going on there. Was there really a murder? And if so, was it the one he has been told about?

Reviews

Kate Thompson's new book Creature of the Night was published in June and has been getting rave reviews on both sides of the Irish Sea.

"a gripping story of debt, drugs and murder mystery"
- David Maybury

"I couldn't fault it... Every teenager heading into the long summer holiday should get hold of it."
- Niall MacMonagle, The Irish Times
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"Totally absorbing and utterly beguiling, it is all done with a remarkable lightness of touch. Books such as this don't come around very often."
- Philip Ardagh, The Guardian

"...an Irish children's writer of dazzling talent and inventiveness, my 15- year-old kept shoving it under my nose with notes saying 'YOU MUST READ THIS'.
- Amanda Craig, The Times