Borderlands - Hardcover

McGilloway, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230020062 ISBN 13: 9780230020061

Publisher: Macmillan New Writing, 2007

Synopsis

'Brian McGilloway's command of plot and assurance of language make it difficult to believe that Borderlands is his debut.' - The Times

'A mystery of labyrinthine complexity' - Sunday Telegraph

The corpse of local teenager Angela Cashell is found on the Tyrone- Donegal border, between the North and South of Ireland, in an area known as the borderlands. Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin heads the investigation: the only clues are a gold ring placed on the girl’s finger and an old photograph, left where she died.

Then another teenager is murdered, and things become further complicated when Devlin unearths a link between the recent killings and the disappearance of a prostitute twenty-five years earlier – a case in which he believes one of his own colleagues is implicated.

As a thickening snow storm blurs the border between North and South, Devlin finds the distinction between right and wrong, vengeance and justice, and even police-officer and criminal becoming equally unclear.

A dazzling and lyrical debut crime novel, Borderlands marks the beginning of a compelling new series featuring Inspector Benedict Devlin.

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Review

"Brian McGilloway's command of plot and assurance of language make it difficult to believe that Borderlands is his debut" -- Marcel Berlins, The Times, March 31, 2007

'A mesmerising story...McGilloway captures the landscape and the
voices of the region very well and writes fluently and poetically.' -- Cath Staincliffe, Tangled Web, March 2007

'A promising start...It will be well worth keeping an eye out for
the next Devlin case.' -- Paul Allen, Coventry Telegraph, March 10, 2007

'Gripping...This is an excellent start to what might be an
entertaining series.'
-- Michael Allen, Grumpy Old Bookman, March 12, 2007

'McGilloway has written a taut, well paced story with strong characters and an ingenious plot that seizes the reader's attention.'
-- Irish Independent

'The author barely puts a foot wrong in this confident book...An
excellent and well-written book.' -- Maxine Clarke, Eurocrime, April 2007

'The writing is excellent and the suspense of the plot is
maintained to the end...A stunning debut.'
-- It's a crime, April 6, 2007

'There's a nice style to McGilloway's first-person narrative and
Devlin comes over as a flawed but likeable character.' -- Paul Allen, Nuneaton Telegraph, March 10, 2007

'This is an impressive debut...And I hope that the second
[Inspector Devlin mystery] follows soon.'
-- Bridget Bolton, reviewingtheevidence.com, February 2007

'a highly tense, taut debut novel... BORDERLANDS is an excellent
book that needs to be read.'
-- Ayo Onatade

Book Description

Introducing Inspector Benedict Devlin . . .

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan New Writing
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0230020062
• ISBN 13: 9780230020061
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 243