Deadly Silence

• Number 1 Irish Best Seller all categories 
• Number 1 Bestseller Non-Fiction for 11 weeks
• Published by Hachette (2025)

An entire family was found dead in a rural community on 29 August 2016. For Jacqueline Connolly, the news headlines that day and for weeks afterwards were a life-shattering tragedy. Her sister Clodagh and nephews Liam, Niall and Ryan, had been killed by someone supposed to cherish and protect them­—husband and father, Alan Hawe.
Deadly Silence is the story of a sister’s struggle to find truth and justice, and her inspirational account of healing from brutal loss and trauma.

It seems incredible that she has been able to write this harrowing, heart-rending memoir. That it is so utterly compelling… is a testament to her resilience and grace under the most catastrophic circumstances ― Irish Times, John Walshe

Often reading this kind of book can seem ghoulish…Deadly Silence is nothing like that. It is a deeply poignant account of lives lost…Deadly Silence is a vital book that demands to be read…Sunday Independent, Eilis O’Hanlon

Every woman in Ireland needs to read Deadly Silence by Jacqueline Connolly, the sister of Clodagh Hawe, who was murdered along with her three sons by her husband in August 2016. I read the 300-odd pages in a single sitting… The Sunday Times, Brenda Power

Just one week out from release ‘Deadly Silence’ is already heading for a second print run… — Meath Chronicle, Seamus Enright

Dr Elaine Byrne of the Policing and Community Safety Authority ‘paid tribute to Connolly for documenting what happened to the Hawe family:
“I think that Clodagh’s sister Jacqueline has done a public service in allowing the public inside that very tragic event, moment by moment, and I think society will learn something from it, and the guards must learn something from it as well.”’ —The Journal, Niall O’Connor