Maeve Kelly

Into The Fire

Extended family secrets long since buried with the intention of ensuring safety have instead entwined Freya in a perilous fight to stay alive. Violently ripped from her home and the carefully curated shroud of safety Everglenn was built to provide, Freya finds herself injured and alone in the outposts of a country not her own. Secrets kept between the generations and across continents have been laced together with scattered memories of ancient lore, forming ties that could bind deadly consequences for Freya in her perilous journey to become a mother to the next generation.

The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing

The Finisher

Through a particularly tragic series of events, couch potato Maeve Kelly has been forced to sign up for the Other Half, Bath's springtime half-marathon. What Maeve doesn't know is just how brutal some of the other runners are. As race day draws closer, an Albanian refugee named Spiro makes a run for freedom on the other side of town, escaping the chain gang that has held him hostage and its murderous foreman, who is known to his charges as The Finisher. The Finisher has killed for disobedience before, and Spiro knows there's a target on his back as he tries to lose himself in the genteel medieval city of Bath. Meanwhile Detective Peter Diamond is tasked with crowd control on the raucous day of the race - and catches sight of a violent criminal he put away a decade ago, and who very much seems to be up to his old tricks now that he is paroled. Diamond's hackles are already up when he learns that one of the runners never crossed the finish line and has disappeared without a trace. Was Diamond a spectator to the prelude to a murder?