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Penguin Books
May 2019
On Sale: May 14, 2019
384 pages
ISBN: 0143133691
EAN: 9780143133698
Kindle: B07JF8JDM7
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Thriller Crime
From the author of The Ruin comes a compulsive new crime thriller set in the fiercely competitive, cutthroat world of research and academia, where the brightest minds will stop at nothing to succeed. When Dr. Emma Sweeney stumbles across the victim of a hit-and-run outside Galway University early one morning, she calls her boyfriend, Detective Cormac Reilly, bringing him first to the scene of a murder that would otherwise never have been assigned to him. The dead girl is carrying an ID that will put this crime at the center of a scandalโher card identifies her as Carline Darcy, heir apparent to Darcy Therapeutics, Irelandโs most successful pharmaceutical company. Darcy Therapeutics has a finger in every pie, from sponsoring university research facilities to funding political parties to philanthropyโit has even funded Emmaโs own ground-breaking research. As the murder investigation twists in unexpected ways and Cormacโs running of the case comes under scrutiny from the department and his colleagues, he is forced to question himself and the beliefs that he has long held as truths. Who really is Emma? And who is Carline Darcy? A gripping and atmospheric follow-up to The Ruin, an โexpertly plotted, complex web of secrets that refuse to stay hiddenโ (Karen Dionne, author of The Marsh Kingโs Daughter), The Scholar is perfect for fans of Tana French and Flynn Berry.
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