Review
'Darkly atmospheric and menacing tale' - Irish Times 'One of the most distinguished practitioners of US crime-writing. The book synthesises literate, poetic writing with scarifying grue.' - Independent 'Connolly has honed the private eye's instincts into a sensibility of palpable evil that makes a strong core to this intelligent thriller. An assured, sophisticated tale...exciting but bittersweet.' - The Times 'This book is truly chilling...secures Connolly's status as a star in the new wave of crime writing. His best so far...nerve-wracking and compulsive.' - Sunday Business Post Dublin 'Thrilling and compulsive...superb dialogue is interspersed with moments of poetic prose and fast action sequences.' - Good Book Guide 'The story weaves mythological influences throughout the narrative with masterful skill.' - Evening Herald (Scotland)
Product Description
Three hundred years ago, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed by one of their own, and slaughtered. Now a band of killers has returned to Sanctuary to seek revenge on a young woman and her son, and the only people who stand in their way are a young rookie officer and the island's resident policeman, the troubled giant known as Melancholy Joe Dupree. But Joe Dupree is no ordinary policeman. He is the guardian of the island's secrets, the repository of its memories. He knows that Sanctuary has been steeped in violence, and that its ghosts will tolerate the shedding of innocent blood no longer. On Sanctuary, the hunters are about to become the hunted.
