When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right place at the right
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In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin
- half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned
- two children & their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the Murder squad's star detective. At first he & his rookie partner, Richie, think this is a simple one: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his children, tried to kill his wife Jenny, & finished off with himself. But there are too many inexplicable details & the evidence is pointing in two directions at once. Scorcher's personal life is tugging for his attention. Seeing the case on the news has sent his sister Dina off the rails again, & she's resurrecting something that Scorcher thought he had tightly under control: what happened to their family, one summer at Broken Harbour, back when they were children. The neat compartments of his life are breaking down, & the sudden tangle of work & family is putting both at risk.