Summary
Belfast. January 2005.
Acting Detective Sergeant John O’Neill stands over the body of a dead teenager. The corpse was discovered on the building site of a luxury development overlooking the River Lagan. Kneecapped then killed, the body bears the hallmarks of a punishment beating. But this is the new Northern Ireland - the Celtic Tiger purrs, the Troubles are over, the paramilitaries are gone. So who is the boy? Why was he killed?
O’Neill quickly realises that no one cares who …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780332253 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780332254 |
| Author: | Matt McGuire |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 5 April 2012 |
| Weight: | 354g |
| Dimensions: | 157mm x 233mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Corsair |
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A debut of exceptional accomplishment and power. “Dark Dawn” takes us on a visceral journey through post-Troubles Belfast and announces a major new talent. This is crime writing of the highest order.’
Set against the backdrop of post-Troubles Northern Ireland, where no criminal investigation is straightforward and history still informs every move the characters make, Dark Dawn is an efficient, atmospheric and engaging debut.Ambitious, multi-layered, a cracking debut.I enjoyed this riveting police procedural immensely and believe this new writer has tackled a tough subject with a deftness of touch unexpected in a debut novel. Its seamless plotting compelled me to keep reading and I look forward to reading more stories of equal intensity from Matt McGuire. - EurocrimeYou are never going to escape the past in a place like Belfast. When a dead teenager turns up kneecapped near a new luxutry development, no one but Acting DS John O’Neill seems particularlybothered. O’Neill has a lot to prove and McGuire handles it brilliantly. - Daily MirrorA crime book with brains. I loved it. - The Irish ExaminerAbout The Author
Matt McGuire
Originally from Belfast, Matt is thirty-two and has worked as a barman, an encyclopaedia salesman, and since 2006, a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of a number of non-fiction books, including Contemporary Scottish Literature (Macmillan, 2009) and editor of The Everyman Book of Irish Poems (Random House, 2011).
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