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The Ruin

The Ruin

Author(s): Dervla McTiernan

Location(s): Galway

Genre(s): Crime, Mystery

Era(s): 1993 / 2013

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February 1993 
On his first week on the job, Garda Cormac Reilly responds to a call at a decrepit country house to find two silent, neglected children waiting for him – fifteen-year-old Maude and five-year-old Jack. Their mother lies dead upstairs.

March 2013
Twenty years later, Cormac has left his high-flying career as a detective in Dublin and returned to Galway. As he struggles to navigate the politics of a new police station, Maude and Jack return to haunt him.

What ties a recent suicide to the woman’s death so long ago? And who among his new colleagues can Cormac really trust?

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Author: tripfiction

In Irish, Ruín means something hidden, a mystery or secret, but the word has a long history as a term of endearment…. 1993 and Cormac Reilly is a fledgling police officer, sent to investigate...

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