Dervla McTiernan: Good Turn (2020, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)
384 pages
English language
Published Jan. 17, 2020 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.
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.
