audio cd, 400 pages
Published Feb. 24, 2020 by HarperCollins.
When Peter Fisher is called to the scene of a supposed prank call, irritation turns to terror when he realises this is no joke. A young boy says he witnessed a little girl being bundled into the boot of a car, and Peter believes him.
DI Cormac Reilly and Peter search frantically for answers, but find obstacles put in their way by the one person who should be helping them: Superintendent Bryan Murphy. Frustrated and severely short-staffed, Peter and Cormac are pushed to breaking point, resulting in a fatal mistake.
Cormac is suspended from duty and Peter is banished to a tiny town on the West Coast of Ireland, where’s he’s tasked with doing the paperwork in a murder investigation that’s supposed to have been resolved. But something isn’t adding up, including the mysterious appearance of a young woman and her nine-year-old daughter, who hasn’t spoke a word in months …
When Peter Fisher is called to the scene of a supposed prank call, irritation turns to terror when he realises this is no joke. A young boy says he witnessed a little girl being bundled into the boot of a car, and Peter believes him.
DI Cormac Reilly and Peter search frantically for answers, but find obstacles put in their way by the one person who should be helping them: Superintendent Bryan Murphy. Frustrated and severely short-staffed, Peter and Cormac are pushed to breaking point, resulting in a fatal mistake.
Cormac is suspended from duty and Peter is banished to a tiny town on the West Coast of Ireland, where’s he’s tasked with doing the paperwork in a murder investigation that’s supposed to have been resolved. But something isn’t adding up, including the mysterious appearance of a young woman and her nine-year-old daughter, who hasn’t spoke a word in months . . .
Abducted girl and then a lot of confusion and it all kind of was solved in the end, kind of
I was delighted to see a new entry in this excellent series set in Ireland. The plot revolves largely around one of my less favorite aspects of the series - Cormac's fraught relationship with his Galway boss, who seems unusually hostile and possibly corrupt. Now we learn that something is definitely going on. A drugs task force under the command of the chief's son has seconded nearly all of the available gardai and they're chasing their tales while crimes go unsolved. Even when a child is abducted, the chief refuses to free up sufficient staff to meet the emergency. While Cormac is tied up interviewing the girl's distraught parents, Young Peter Fisher makes a well-reasoned guess at where the abductor may have taken the girl, and he sets out to confront him, ending in a disaster that threatens Cormac's future and banishes Peter to a small coastal town where his …
I was delighted to see a new entry in this excellent series set in Ireland. The plot revolves largely around one of my less favorite aspects of the series - Cormac's fraught relationship with his Galway boss, who seems unusually hostile and possibly corrupt. Now we learn that something is definitely going on. A drugs task force under the command of the chief's son has seconded nearly all of the available gardai and they're chasing their tales while crimes go unsolved. Even when a child is abducted, the chief refuses to free up sufficient staff to meet the emergency. While Cormac is tied up interviewing the girl's distraught parents, Young Peter Fisher makes a well-reasoned guess at where the abductor may have taken the girl, and he sets out to confront him, ending in a disaster that threatens Cormac's future and banishes Peter to a small coastal town where his detested father will be his new supervisor. returnreturnWhile the two try to figure out what exactly is going on with the drugs task force - because something is not right - there are other mysteries to solve. Why was the abducted girl released just as Peter was pursuing his lead, and who was actually responsible? Who bludgeoned to death two farmers, and does it have anything to do with the sudden unexpected death of another man, as well as the rapidly declining health of Peter's grandmother? Who is the girl who Peter's father placed in his grandmother's home to help, and why is her daughter so traumatized when she sees police? Then there are the human relationship mysteries - what will become of Cormac's relationship with his girlfriend now living in Belgium and will Peter and his father ever reconcile? returnreturnBy the end, some of the long-term conflicts in the series have been resolved. It will be interesting to see where the series goes next.
