Final Fall

She left a recording. Then she vanished.
Dr Maeve Carrick has spent years trying to forget Belfast—and the investigation that destroyed her career, fractured her family, and taught her how easily institutions can bury the truth. Then a young researcher named Niamh Ward sends Maeve a recording. Niamh insists she is not suicidal, confused, or seeking attention.
She believes she is about to be taken, silenced, or deliberately made to appear unreliable. Hours later, she disappears. Maeve returns to Belfast and reunites with Detective Inspector Ronan Devlin, the man who once stood beside her—and stepped back when speaking the truth mattered most.
Niamh’s evidence leads them to a former children’s residence, altered records, vanished witnesses, and a network protected by respectable people with powerful friends. What began as the search for one missing woman soon exposes children erased from official history and a system that has survived because everyone inside it agreed not to see. Finding Niamh will require Maeve to confront more than the people responsible. She must confront the part she once played in helping them remain hidden.
Atmospheric, emotionally charged and relentlessly suspenseful, Final Fall is a missing-person thriller about buried evidence, institutional complicity and the dangerous women who refuse to stop keeping records.