'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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"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
Introducing Inspector Benedict Devlin . . .
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