The Truth About Ruby Cooper

'If my sister hadn’t been beautiful, none of it would have happened.'

Ruby Cooper and her sister, Erin, live an idyllic life in their close-knit church community in Boston. But when Ruby is sixteen, she is involved in an incident that causes her family’s world to implode.

Across decades, the fallout leaves a wake of destruction behind Ruby in Dublin and Erin in Boston.

Not that Ruby wants to think about the past.

But it can’t stay a secret forever.

Author: Liz Nugent

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime & mystery, Thriller / suspense

Published on 12 Mar 2026 by Penguin Books Ltd.