Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
Description |
321 pages; 22 cm |
Series |
The Inspector Devlin series ; [2] |
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McGilloway, Brian, 1974-
Inspector Devlin series ; 2.
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Summary |
In Gallows Lane, the Donegal summer dawns unusually hot, and Inspector Devlin returns to the borderlands separating the North and South of Ireland, waiting for a notorious ex-con, James Kerr, to return home on early release. Kerr claims to have found God while in prison, but the superintendant of police wants him to stay on the other side of the border. When a young woman is found beaten to death on a building site in what appears to be a sexually-motivated killing, Devlin is distracted from his assignment of keeping tabs on Kerr. Enquiries into the murder soon point to a local bodybuilder and steroid addict. But days later, the born-again ex-con Kerr is found nailed to a tree -- crucified. Increasingly torn between his young family and his job, Devlin is determined to apprehend those responsible for the murders before they strike again, even as the carnage begins to jeopardize those he cares about most. |
Subject |
Police -- Ireland -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
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Young women -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
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Bodybuilders -- Drug use -- Fiction.
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Ireland -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery stories.
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ISBN |
9780312384326 |
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0312384327 |
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