"Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen-year-old kid with a dream of escaping his family's cramped flat on Faithful Place and running away to London with his girl, Rosie Daly. But on the night they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn't show. Frank took it for granted that she'd given him the brush-off--probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. He never went home again. Neither did Rosie. Then,...

"Being on the Murder Squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be. Her partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems glad she's there. The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment. Antoinette is savagely tough, but she's getting close to the breaking point. Their new case looks like yet another by-the-numbers lovers' quarrel gone bad. Aislinn Murray is blond, pretty, groomed...

El detective Frank Mackey se encuentra de vuelta en la oscura maraña de relaciones que dejó atrás hace veintidós años cuando la maleta que pertenece a su primer amor, Rosie Daly, aparece detrás de una chimenea en una casa abandonada en Faithful Place. La acalorada tercera novela del escuadrón de asesinatos de Dublín.

Matt Minogue returns to his hometown in County Clare and got caught up in a puzzling case involving Jamesy Bourke, a convicted arsonist-murderer. IRA lawyer Alo Crossan believes Bourke was wrongly convicted and asks Minogue to reopen the 12-year-old case.

"In the 1880s the Dublin Metropolitan Police classified crime in two distinct classes. Political crimes were classed as 'special,' whereas theft, robbery and even murder ... were known as 'ordinary.' [In] June 1887, the city swelters in a long summer heatwave, the criminal underworld simmers, and with it, the threat of nationalist violence is growing ... Then the mutilated bodies of a man and a child are discovered in Phoenix Park and Detective Sergeant...