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The heart-stopping follow-up to Brian McGilloway?s thrilling debut, Gallows Lane continues the compelling series that captures modern Ireland and showcases a striking new voice in crime writing.
Inspector Devlin #2
Minotaur Books
October 2009
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Featuring: Benedict Devlin
336 pages ISBN: 0312384327 EAN: 9780312384326 Hardcover
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Mystery Police Procedural
In his critically acclaimed debut, Borderlands, Brian
McGilloway opened a window onto modern Ireland through the
eyes of Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin, drawing comparisons
to John Connolly and Ian Rankin for his tight, fast-paced
plotting. In Gallows Lane, the Donegal summer
dawns unusually hot, and Inspector Devlin returns to the
borderlands separating the North and South of Ireland,
waiting for a notorious ex-con, James Kerr, to return home
on early release. Kerr claims to have found God while in
prison, but the superintendant of police wants him to stay
on the other side of the border. When a young woman is
found beaten to death on a building site in what appears to
be a sexually-motivated killing, Devlin is distracted from
his assignment of keeping tabs on Kerr. Enquiries into the
murder soon point to a local bodybuilder and steroid addict.
But days later, the born-again ex-con Kerr is found nailed
to a tree—crucified. Increasingly torn between his
young family and his job, Devlin is determined to apprehend
those responsible for the murders before they strike again,
even as the carnage begins to jeopardize those he cares
about most. Taking its title from the name of the
road down which condemned Donegal criminals were once led,
Gallows Lane is a sharp, modern thriller; a stunning
second installment in what John Connolly says is “set to
become one of the great series in modern crime fiction."
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