A June of ordinary murders
(2015, original release: 2012)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
MYSTERY/BRADY,C

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Mysteries MYSTERY/BRADY,C Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Minotaur Books, 2015
©2012
EDITION
First U.S. edition
DESCRIPTION

x, 381 pages : map ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781250057563 (hbk.), 1250057566 (hbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"A Thomas Dunne book."

"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 Joe Swallow steps up to investigate ... With the Land War at its height, the priority is to contain special crime, and these murders appear to be ordinary--thus of lesser priority. But when the evidence suggests high-level involvement, and the body count increases, Swallow must navigate the treacherous waters of foolish superiors, political directives, and frayed tempers to solve the case"--

"First published in Great Britain by New Island Books"--Title page verso