Shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger Award 2007.
Rejoice in the arrival of a great new Irish series featuring a very human, very likeable, moral Inspector Devlin. The setting is bleak and atmospheric and the plot well structured and compelling, albeit a little full of twists at the unexpected end. A great find.
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The corpse of local teenager Angela Cashell is found on the Tyrone- Donegal border, between the North and South of Ireland, in an area known as the borderlands. Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin heads the investigation: the only clues are a gold ring placed on the girl’s finger and an old photograph, left where she died.
Then another teenager is murdered, and things become further complicated when Devlin unearths a link between the recent killings and 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 and South, Devlin finds the distinction between right and wrong, vengeance and justice, and even police-officer and criminal becoming equally unclear.
A dazzling and lyrical debut crime novel, Borderlands marks the beginning of a compelling new series featuring Inspector Benedict Devlin.
Borderlands features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, Debut Books of the Month, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
Borderlands is available in Paperback
Borderlands was written by Brian Mcgilloway and published by Pan Macmillan
Borderlands has 311 pages
