- Paperback: 212 pages
- Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd (April 11 1994)
- ISBN-10: 0434001465
- ISBN-13: 978-0434001460
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From Publishers Weekly
A double murder on a country road near Glencraigie kicks off this uneven debut by an Irish newspaper editor that features hard-drinking, hard-working Superintendent Cecil Megarry. The victims, a Protestant from West Belfast who'd once been a key informer for Megarry, and a Catholic once charged with child molesting, were murdered hours apart and with different weapons. Megarry feels vaguely responsible for the informer, whose execution-style death suggests IRA involvement, and doggedly pursues clues even though he's urged to wrap up the case quickly. Suspecting neither murder is a terrorist act, he links one of them to another unsolved killing he investigated a year earlier. Proceeding through an abruptly shifting plot whose elements often seem disjointed, McEldowney's dour hero, estranged from his family and driven by personal demons, seems a somewhat derivative figure, but may well improve on second acquaintance.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Kirkus Reviews
Nobody claims responsibility for the two bodies found in and near a Ford Cortina on Glencraigie Hill--even though John McCarthy, one of the dead men, was a washed-up IRA informer who was an obvious candidate for assassination. Superintendent Cecil Megarry, a hard-bitten cop more interested in the world's problems than his own family's, keeps turning up other mysteries about the deaths. For one thing, McCarthy, an old friend of the father who still rules Megarry's conscience even in death, was shot with a different weapon than was farmhand David Stewart, and a good four hours earlier. For another, Stewart turns out to have a bank account of œ32,000 and a history of accusations for child molesting--which the local inspector has been soft-pedaling for reasons that don't satisfy the relatives of eight-year-old Julie McClenaghan. Finally, McCarthy--though not Stewart--was executed in the same way as a dead milkman with IRA ties. What do the murders have to do with the untraceable ``Bobby Rossi'' in McCarthy's past? Are they political or private? Are they even the work of the same killer? A bare-bones procedural, neatly solved by newcomer Megarry despite the absence of any strong individual footprint; from workaholic cop to IRA faithful, we've all been here before. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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