Borderlands ****SIGNED & DATED****

McGilloway, Brian

ISBN 10: 0230020062 / ISBN 13: 9780230020061

Published by Macmillan New Writing, London, 2007

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1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT, SIGNED & DATED BY AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE. Book as new, unread, FINE/FINE condition. The corpse of local teenager Angela Cashell is found on the Tyrone-Donegal border, between the North and South of Ireland, in an area known as the borderlands. Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin heads the investigation: the only clues are a gold ring placed on the girl's finger and an old photograph, left where she died. While Devlin searches for the girl's killer, her father has his own ideas about who is responsible, and his own ideas about how to make them pay. As Devlin struggles to handle the murder enquiry - one which also involves a dead drug dealer, a local politician and a young traveller boy - closer to home he becomes reacquainted with an old flame eager to rekindle their affair. Then another teenager is murdered, and things become further complicated when Devlin unearths a link between the recent killings and the disappearance, twenty-five years earlier, of a prostitute - a case in which he believes one of his own colleagues is implicated.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Borderlands ****SIGNED & DATED****
• Publisher: Macmillan New Writing, London
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230020062
• ISBN 13: 9780230020061
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

'Brian McGilloway's command of plot and assurance of language make it difficult to believe that Borderlands is his debut.' - "The Times". 'A mystery of labyrinthine complexity' - "Sunday Telegraph". The corpse of local teenager Angela Cashell is found on the Tyrone- Donegal border, between the North and South of Ireland, in an area known as the borderlands. Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin heads the investigation: the only clues are a gold ring placed on the girl's finger and an old photograph, left where she died. Then another teenager is murdered, and things become further complicated when Devlin unearths a link between the recent killings and the disappearance of a prostitute twenty-five years earlier a case in which he believes one of his own colleagues is implicated. As a thickening snow storm blurs the border between North and South, Devlin finds the distinction between right and wrong, vengeance and justice, and even police-officer and criminal becoming equally unclear. This is a dazzling and lyrical debut crime novel, "Borderlands" marks the beginning of a compelling new series featuring Inspector Benedict Devlin.

About the Author

Brian McGilloway was born in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1974. He studied English at Queen's University, Belfast before completing an MA in Literature through the Open University. He now teaches English in St Columb's College, Derry. Previously he has written and produced plays and short stories. He lives near the borderlands, with his wife and their two sons.