Coming later in the week...

Borderlands by Brian McGilloway is out on Friday April 6th.

I'll be posting up a review of the novel and an interview with the author on or near that date.

Meanwhile, here's the synopsis of the novel from Brian's site:

The abandoned 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, in which the only clues are a gold ring placed on the girl’s finger and a piece of 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.

Things become further complicated when Devlin unearths a link between the recent killings and the disappearance, twenty five years previous, of a prostitute– 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 increasingly unclear.

This debut crime novel, examining how the events of past still haunt the present in the borderlands of Ireland, marks the first in a series featuring Inspector Benedict Devlin.

Comments

[crimeficreader]

Yes, there definitely will be. Read the recently posted interview if you have a chance, Maxine.

[Maxine]

I can very highly recommend this book, it is excellent. And short! I'm sure there will be more to come from this author.