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THE BRAND-NEW STORY IN THIS BESTSELLING SERIES!
Synopsis:
Paddy McCabe’s digger has brought up a human arm. The rest of the body is still in the bog.
Work on a new bungalow near Roundstone stops dead. Beneath the peat lies a young woman’s body, buried for more than twenty years.
Detective Inspector Maureen Lyons has built her reputation on results. But before she can hunt a killer, she needs to put a name to the woman in the bog.
The victim’s clothes weren’t cheap. Her jeans pocket holds thirty-five pounds in old Irish banknotes. And a deep wound at the base of her skull points to a deliberate attack.
Her shoes are missing.
Someone left her in a shallow grave on the Wild Atlantic Way. Now Maureen and her Galway team must piece together what happened on this lonely stretch of coastline, while the passing years have done their best to erase it.
It’s a long way back to start asking questions. But Maureen doesn’t like loose ends.
The killer has got away with this for an awfully long time. Maureen thinks that’s quite long enough.
MEET THE DETECTIVES
Detective Inspector Maureen Lyons made her name by tripping a fleeing armed bank robber on Eyre Square. Now based at Galway’s Mill Street station, she has sharp instincts, an eye for an overlooked clue and little patience for loose ends. Her partner, Superintendent Mick Hays, shares her home in Salthill and her determination to get results. He’d happily swap another management meeting for some proper detective work. Together, they make a formidable team of thief-takers.
THE SETTING
From Galway’s busy streets to the white sandy beaches and bog roads of Connemara, this is the wild west of Ireland. Around Roundstone and Clifden, turf fires burn, Atlantic weather rolls in, and the local Gardaí know their neighbours. A chat over a mug of tea can be every bit as useful as a forensic report.
REVIEW:
This is book 16 of the series, and admittedly I have skipped around in it and not read them all, or in series. But what I have seen is how DI Lyons has matured and become the inspector to work with, and how her relationship with Sup. Hayes has evolved from friendship and coworkers. When called out to this scene, she knows they won't have an easy time of it, but hope that the body is older and it can be turned over to forensics and anthropologists. But no, the body has modern clothing, albeit a few decades old. With not much to go on and a large list of missing females about her age, it will take DI Lyons and her team a lot of persistence to try to narrow down who the victim is, before they can determine why she was killed and left in the bog- was it happenstance, a planned murder, or was she in the wrong place at the wrong time? A good page turner, it's also a decent standalone from the series, if you haven't read any of the other books.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
David is a native of Ireland and lives on the east coast near Dublin. Having travelled extensively during his career, David says that he has never found a place as beautiful as Connemara in the west of Ireland in all of his travels.
Since retiring from a busy work life as a Programme Manager, David has written several highly successful series of crime fiction books. The Galway Homicide series is set in and around Clifden in Connemara where the wonderful scenery of the place forms an important part of the stories. The series starts with Murder on the Old Bog Road, and continues with many of the same characters throughout, as they bring some nasty villains to justice.
The Dublin Homicide series is grittier, though not overly violent, and features some very twisty tales, often, though not always, involving international crime. DI Burke and DS Moore have their hands full with these complex cases that keep the reader turning the pages till the very end.
The Wexford series featuring DI Vikki Kirkby is a fresh look at crime in the south east of Ireland.
And now, The Mayo Mysteries, starting with The Farmyard Mystery. A new series of compelling crime fiction featuring DI Martin O'Shea and DS Deirdre Maguire. The second book in the series, The Red Shoes Mystery is now available for Kindle, paperback and audiobook formats.
David is an avid reader of crime fiction. He particularly admires Ann Cleeves, and enjoys the TV renditions of Vera, Shetland and the Morse and Lewis series written by Colin Dexter. Ian Rankin's Rebus series with Ken Stott is another favourite.
A keen photographer, David visits Connemara as often as his writing will allow to capture the beauty of the place on film.
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