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Synopsis
Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin is summoned to a burning barn and finds the remains of a local drug dealer. And when it becomes clear that his death was no accident, suspicion falls on a local vigilante group: former paramilitaries called The Rising. Meanwhile, Devlin's former colleague's teenage son has gone missing during a seaside camping trip. Devlin is relieved when the boy's mother, Caroline Williams, receives a text message from her son's phone, but is mystified when a body is washed up on a nearby beach. When another drug dealer is killed, Devlin realizes this is not just civic-minded vigilantism. But a personal crisis strikes at the heart of Ben's own family, and he's forced to confront the compromises his career has forced upon him...
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Brian McGilloway was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1974, and teaches English at St Columb's College, Derry. He lives near the Irish borderlands, with his wife and their three sons.
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In McGilloway's intriguing fourth mystery featuring Garda Insp. Benedict Devlin (after 2010's Bleed a River Deep), Devlin investigates a series of murders, each more devastating than the last. When the remains of a drug dealer are found in a burnt-down barn, evidence indicates the barn was set ablaze by the Rising, a local antidrug vigilante group. At the same time, Devlin faces a case that strikes closer to home: the body of a former colleague's son has washed up on a beach, and a posthumous text message from the son's phone hints that he and his two friends' innocent camping trip might not have been so innocent. The bleak borderlands between Ireland and Northern Ireland are the perfect setting for such shady characters, whose nebulous motivations are both plausible and surprising. Despite the dreary setting, the thrills are anything but dull. McGilloway builds a realistic world in which each of Devlin's actions is fraught with personal and moral peril. (Nov.)
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- PublisherCharnwood
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1444805819
- ISBN 13 9781444805819
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages352
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