AN IRISH writer is due to publish the sixth book of her thriller detective series, a novel set in North Wales.

Jenny O’Brien will release “Cold Grave”, as part of her “Gaby Darin” series, on May 18.

She first visited North Wales as a young child and her long association continued when she took up a nursing position in Llandudno in the 1980s.

Wales felt right, she said, when she started writing the for Harper Collins, as a place she knows well, and where she also has siblings living for ad-hoc advice.

The series has come a long way from the first book, “Silent Cry”, set in Pembrokeshire, to books two to six, set across St Asaph, Llandudno and Rhos-on-Sea.

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17-year-old Bryony Lloyd’s father drops her off at a friend’s house to study – but when he returns to pick her up there’s no sign of her, and the woman who lives in the house swears she lives alone.

Bryony has vanished into thin air, and her “friend” doesn’t seem to exist.

DI Gaby Darin immediately sees similarities with another case: 17-year-old Christy Taylor, who vanished without warning several months earlier.

There’s nothing in the girls’ personal lives to suggest trouble at home – could someone have taken them both?

After a third case is linked, Gaby knows time is running out if she’s going to find Bryony and Christy alive.

After going missing over a year ago, this girl has just been found dead.

When a tragic accident means Gaby loses a vital member of her team, she distracts herself from her grief by throwing herself into finding the missing girls, even if it means putting her career on the line.

Born in Dublin, Jenny moved to Wales and then Guernsey, where she tries to find time to write in-between working as a nurse and raising three teenagers.

“Cold Grave” is to be released via HQ Digital (Harper Collins) and will be available from May 18 at: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09QPBT39P.