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Dunphy Shane

    Shane Dunphy è un autore di successo i cui lavori traggono spunto dalle sue esperienze come assistente sociale per la protezione dell'infanzia. La sua scrittura si addentra in profonde storie umane e questioni sociali, che svela con sensibilità e acume. Oltre alla narrativa, è anche un abile musicista e un pluripremiato documentarista, dimostrando i suoi versatili talenti artistici. Le sue narrazioni sono caratterizzate da autenticità e una potente risonanza emotiva.

    After She Vanished
    Hush, Little Baby
    When She Was Gone
    Why She Ran
    If She Returned
    The Boy in the Cupboard
    • 2023

      It's the calm voice at the other end of the phone. Someone there to help in your hour of need. An innocent chat. But once they're inside your computer, there's no escape . . . The Helpdesk is a gripping, fast-paced thriller that will have you at the edge of your seat

      The Helpdesk
    • 2020

      If She Returned

      • 352pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      The girl criminologist David Dunnigan spent eighteen years searching for has returned... Hasn't she?

      If She Returned
    • 2020

      Why She Ran

      • 464pagine
      • 17 ore di lettura

      A thrilling, terrifying crime novel by the author of After She Vanished, When She Was Gone and If She Returned.

      Why She Ran
    • 2018
    • 2017

      After She Vanished

      • 320pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      Is it possible to disappear without a trace?Five people are missing and criminologist David Dunnigan - haunted by the disappearance of his niece twenty years ago - has been tasked with finding them...

      After She Vanished
    • 2008

      Five heart-stopping true stories of terror and triumph, told by the man who tried to make life better for these troubled children ...Clive, a thirteen-year-old victim of terrifying demonic visions, tells frightening stories of abuse and imprisonment. Could they be genuine? Patrick, twelve, bravely setting out to find the truth about his birth family - however painful it may be ...Six-year-old Johnny, tiny and undernourished, desperately tries to recover from a brain-injury inflicted by his drunken and violent father ...At fourteen, Katie is so aggressive that the authorities have put her in special care, away from other children. What could be the cause of such fury? And in a grim island prison, a lumbering bully ponders his crimes against his twin children, Larry and Francey - while his sadistic and conniving wife, the real monster behind his actions, tries to fool the state into returning the traumatised boy and girl to her care.

      Hush, Little Baby
    • 2008

      The Boy in the Cupboard

      • 223pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      Craig, the little boy who can't speak English, isn't allowed to use his real name and hides food around his playschool, afraid he'll be hungry again. His parents are trying to make a fresh start, but their gangland bosses are about to catch up with the family and Craig will pay a terrible price.

      The Boy in the Cupboard