Borderlands

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The corpse of local teenager Angela Cashell is found on the Tyrone- Donegal border, between the North & South of Irel&, in an area known as the borderlands. Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin heads the investigation: the only clues are a gold ring placed on the girls finger & an old photograph, left where she died. Then another teenager is murdered, & things become further complicated when Devlin unearths a link between the recent killings & the disappearance of a prostitute twenty-five years earlier ? a case in which he believes one of his own colleagues is implicated. As a thickening snow storm blurs the border between North & South, Devlin finds the distinction between right & wrong, vengeance & justice, & even police-officer & criminal becoming equally unclear. A dazzling & lyrical debut crime novel, Borderlands marks the beginning of a compelling new series featuring Inspector Benedict Devlin. Brian Mc Gilloways command of plot & assurance of language make it difficult to believe that Borderlands is his debut.
- The Times A mystery of labyrinthine complexity
- Sunday Telegraph