The Habit of Fear

FAMILY TIES
New York Daily reporter Julie Hayes could tell everybody's story—except her own. But after a seemingly random act of violence shattered her life she knew it was time to put the pieces together. It began with an unknown name on her birth certificate. Her father's.

Julie discovered, however, that diving into her past made the present all too real. Was there a connection between her Irish poet father, the two Irish thugs who attacked her, their radical lawyer—and the dead man in her hotel room?

Julie Hayes is a gossip columnist, but now it's her own story she's pursuing ... back to Dublin, into a maze of violence, mystery—and murder.