In Glass Houses – Edel Coffey

When I touched it, it lit up with a picture of Flo and Marley. I felt a lump in my throat. ‘Where is Flo now?’ I asked. ‘She’s staying with a woman from the shelter. I can’t look after her and do this job. They’ve said they’ll help out until they can find something . . . it’s just so unfair on her, Eddie. I can’t believe Marley would do this to Flo. It doesn’t make sense.’

‘She wouldn’t.’ I gave his shoulder a squeeze. It was as comfortable as I got with physical affection. I hit the phone screen again. Twenty-four hours ago, Marley had everything going for her. She was a fighter. She had got herself this far and she was excited about the future. Why would she give up now, just when things were getting good?

Now she was in a morgue and her little girl was orphaned. I tapped in the passcode 1-2-3-4 and the phone punished me with a haptic buzz. Worth a try, I thought. ‘She did not seem suicidal when I interviewed her yesterday. She seemed hopeful. And she was fine at the party last night, right?’ ‘I agree,’ Vivian said, dabbing his face with a tissue.

I tried 4-3-2-1. Buzz. Wrong again. ‘I’d go so far as to say she was looking forward to the future.’ ‘I know,’ Vivian said. ‘Something about it just feels . . . off to me,’ I said. ‘We need to figure out who that guy in the elevator was. And if anyone else has access to the property.’

I punched in 0-0-0-0. The phone unlocked with a rewarding smooth click. ‘Vivian,’ I said, and held up the unlocked phone to face him. ‘How did you do that?’ he asked. ‘I’m a journalist, Viv. It’s what I do.’ OceanofPDF.com A social invitation few minutes later, there was a knock on my pool-terrace door. Strange. ‘Samsara! Come in . . .’ Samsara recoiled when she saw Dave. ‘Oh hi . . . I probably should just have gone downstairs and put a note in your cubby but I could see you were home so I figured why not just walk across the terrace?’

She handed over a bottle of champagne. ‘Housewarming gift.’ She smiled. I could see how this looked to her. Soft music was playing and the lights were low.

Edel Coffey is an Irish journalist and broadcaster. She has worked as a presenter and reporter with RTÉ Radio, editor of the Irish Independent Weekend Magazine, books editor of the Irish Independent and books editor of The Gloss Magazine. She is a regular contributor to The Irish Times and RTÉ Radio One. Her debut novel, Breaking Point, was a No.1 Irish bestseller, was shortlisted for Best Debut and won Best Crime Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards.

Her second novel, In Her Place, was also a No.1 Irish bestseller and was shortlisted for the RTÉ Radio 1 Listeners’ Choice Award. In Glass Houses is her third novel. Coffey lives in Galway with her husband and children. OceanofPDF.com Also by Edel Coffey Breaking Point In Her Place OceanofPDF.com IN GLASS HOUSES EDEL COFFEY OceanofPDF.com SPHERE First published in Great Britain in 2026 by Sphere Copyright © Edel Coffey 2026 The moral right of the author has been asserted.

All characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in the public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-1-4087-2250-3 Sphere The authorised representative An imprint of in the EEA is Little, Brown Book Group Hachette Ireland Carmelite House 8 Castlecourt Centre 50 Victoria Embankment Dublin 15, D15 XTP3, Ireland London EC4Y 0DZ (email: [email protected]) An Hachette UK Company www.hachette.co.uk www.littlebrown.co.uk OceanofPDF.com For Henry, Arthur, Edith and Frieda . . . and for David, always.

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