The Ruin

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2019
Edition: Reprint

Description: 380 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The Top Ten fiction bestseller and critically acclaimed crime debut featuring everyones favourite new detective, Cormac ReillyThe Ruin is spectacularly good. So CONFIDENT ... excellently written and, at times, heartachingly sad Marian KeyesCorruption, clandestine cover-ups and criminal conspiracy ... as moving as it is fast-paced Val McDermidDervla McTiernans first novel outclasses some of the genres stalwarts making her a crime writer to watch ... fans of Ian Rankin and Tana French will feel right at home Bookseller + Publisher (4.5 stars)Galway 1993: Young Garda Cormac Reilly is called to a scene he will never forget. Two silent, neglected children - fifteen-year-old Maude and five-year-old Jack - are waiting for him at a crumbling country house. Upstairs, their mother lies dead.Twenty years later, a body surfaces in the icy black waters of the River Corrib. At first it looks like an open-and-shut case, but then doubt is cast on the investigations findings - and the integrity of the police. Cormac is thrown back into the cold case that has haunted him his entire career - what links the two deaths, two decades apart As he navigates his way through police politics and the ghosts of the past, Detective Reilly uncovers shocking secrets and finds himself questioning who among his colleagues he can trust.What really did happen in that house where he first met Maude and Jack The Ruin draws us deep into the dark heart of Ireland and asks who will protect you when the authorities cant - or wont.

ISBN: 9781460755402