Synopses & Reviews
A devastating crime thriller about corruption, greed, and vengeance, and a father's love for his daughterA child is found wandering in an ancient woodland in midwinter, her hands covered in blood, but it is not her own. Unwilling or unable to speak, the only person she seems to trust is the young officer who rescued her, Detective Sergeant Lucy Black. Soon afterwards, DS Black is baffled to find herself suddenly moved from a high-profile case involving a kidnapping of another girl, a prominent businessman's teenage daughter. At home, Black is struggling with caring for her increasingly unstable father, and trying to avoid conflict with her frosty mother—who also happens to be the assistant chief constable. As she tries to identify the unclaimed child, Black begins to realize that her case and the kidnapping may be linked by events from the grimmest days of the country's recent history—events that also defined her own trouble childhood.
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"An assured and grittily realistic tale from an author who is being compared to James Lee Burke and Ian Rankin." —Sunday Business Post
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"Cleverly constructed, packed with vibrant and believable characters and admirably free of the clichés of the genre . . . one of the most original voices in the notably expanding field of Irish crime fiction and this reviewer, for one, would like to read more of DS Lucy Black." —Irish Independent
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"McGilloway is a major force in crime writing." —John Connolly, author, The Unquiet
About the Author
Brian McGilloway is the author of Bleed A River Deep, Borderlands, and Gallows Lane.