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Julie Frayn

    Julie Frayn crafts award-winning novels and short stories that deliver a powerful impact. Driven by a lifelong passion for storytelling that complements her analytical mind, Frayn's work explores nuanced themes with a distinctive voice. Though her professional life involves numbers, her creative spirit thrives in the written word, infusing her narratives with both precision and imagination. Her stories resonate with readers, offering a compelling blend of intellectual depth and emotional resonance.

    Pocketful of Bones
    • Pocketful of Bones

      • 342 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Finnegan MacGillivray, red-haired, freckle-faced social pariah, finds solace in his mother's garden, while she entertains "dates" in his home. When an accident takes the life of a friend, Finnegan buries the evidence amid the purple dead nettle and bougainvillea, and unearths a treasure trove of human remains. Did his house rest atop an ancient burial ground? Or was there a killer tucking him into bed at night? His fascination with bones grows as fast as his obsession with his mother. She rejects his advances, and he escapes to the other side of the country. Years later, he returns to his childhood home, to the secrets and the guilt and the bones — and to fulfil his destiny.

      Pocketful of Bones