So Say the Fallen - Hardcover

Neville, Stuart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410497313 ISBN 13: 9781410497314

Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print, 2017

Synopsis

Henry Garrick, a local car dealer who was maimed in an accident five months before, has apparently taken his own life. A simple case, it should be wrapped up in a few days. But something doesn t feel right to Belfast detective Serena Flanagan, despite the fact that there is no evidence of foul play.
As she investigates, Flanagan interviews Roberta Garrick, Henry s widow, who is comforted in her grief by Reverend Peter McKay, rector of the local church and a close family friend. Flanagan is carrying heavy personal burdens, her mind and marriage nearly at breaking point, and on impulse she confides in the rector, seeking his spiritual help. But with the secrets McKay is keeping, he is in no position to help anyone. His faith long gone, he is lost in a spiral of lust and guilt from which he sees no escape. Until, that is, the policewoman offers him a glimpse of salvation.
Flanagan ignores her superiors advice to close the case, call it a suicide, and be done with it. As she picks at the threads of the dead man s life, a disturbing picture emerges, and she realizes the widow Roberta Garrick is not what she seems . . .

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Review

Praise for So Say the Fallen
"What s there to say besides, Stuart Neville is a fantastic author."
Suspense Magazine
"[A] complex and compassionate study of the human condition."
Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Belfast has been a significant presence in Neville s mysteries, but this compelling procedural is a more universal tale in which unchecked evil flourishes. Flanagan, a breastcancer survivor undergoing counseling, is a fallible protagonist whose appeal grows with each book; don t miss her here.
Booklist, Starred Review
"Ataut psychological thriller... Superb."
Gumshoe Review
Praise for Stuart Neville

Neville s books are dark but elegantly written case studies of the roots of violence, and here he writes thoughtfully, about children who come from the streets, go through the foster programs and prison systems, and are either reborn or dragged back into the sorrows that are their inheritance.
The New York Times Book Review
Neville has been masterfully capturing the mean streets of Belfast in a series of thrillers, each arguably more powerful than the last. His latest, Those We Left Behind, in which he ups his game by about 10 notches, is a robust police procedural.
The Boston Globe
In the world of modern crime fiction, Stuart Neville is a supernova. I buy his books the day they re released because I can t wait to see where he takes me next. And I m never disappointed.
Dennis Lehane, author of World Gone By
A great, brawling ache of a novel . . . Serena Flanagan [is] the bruised and compassionate hero for whom we ve all been waiting.
Megan Abbott, author of The Fever
Primo noir.
The Austin Chronicle
Not only one of the finest thriller debuts of the last ten years, but also one of the best Irish novels, in any genre, of recent times.
John Connolly

"Stuart Neville is Ireland's answer to Henning Mankell."
Ken Bruen
The best first novel I ve read in years . . . It s a flat-out terror trip.
James Ellroy

From the Hardcover edition."

Praise for So Say the Fallen

"Masterfully captures a sense of the deep evil that humans can summon."
The Seattle Times
"Neville is skilled and pulls the reader in with this relentless dramatic tale. It s a cleverly plotted cat and mouse game."
WBAI Radio, NYC

"[A] complex protagonist whose conflicting impulses provide the energy for a compelling novel of suspense and makes the reader wonder what exactly separates our driven heroine from the calculating killer she's hunting."
Reviewing the Evidence
"While executing a taut, heart-stopping police procedural, Neville is equally skilled at imbuing the darkest corners of our minds with a bleak beauty of their own, uncovering humanity in the most inhumane of baddies."
Seattle Review of Books
"What s there to say besides, Stuart Neville is a fantastic author."
Suspense Magazine
"It s easy to see why Neville s work has been shortlisted for various literary awards on multiple occasions."
Bookreporter.com
"[A] complex and compassionate study of the human condition."
Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Belfast has been a significant presence in Neville s mysteries, but this compelling procedural is a more universal tale in which unchecked evil flourishes. Flanagan, a breastcancer survivor undergoing counseling, is a fallible protagonist whose appeal grows with each book; don t miss her here.
Booklist, Starred Review
"Ataut psychological thriller . . . Superb."
Gumshoe Review
"One of the best crime novels I read this year. "
Boomerang Books (Australia)
Praise for Stuart Neville

Neville s books are dark but elegantly written case studies of the roots of violence, and here he writes thoughtfully, about children who come from the streets, go through the foster programs and prison systems, and are either reborn or dragged back into the sorrows that are their inheritance.
The New York Times Book Review
Neville has been masterfully capturing the mean streets of Belfast in a series of thrillers, each arguably more powerful than the last. His latest, Those We Left Behind, in which he ups his game by about 10 notches, is a robust police procedural.
The Boston Globe
In the world of modern crime fiction, Stuart Neville is a supernova. I buy his books the day they re released because I can t wait to see where he takes me next. And I m never disappointed.
Dennis Lehane, author of World Gone By
A great, brawling ache of a novel . . . Serena Flanagan [is] the bruised and compassionate hero for whom we ve all been waiting.
Megan Abbott, author of The Fever
Primo noir.
The Austin Chronicle
Not only one of the finest thriller debuts of the last ten years, but also one of the best Irish novels, in any genre, of recent times.
John Connolly

"Stuart Neville is Ireland's answer to Henning Mankell."
Ken Bruen
The best first novel I ve read in years . . . It s a flat-out terror trip.
James Ellroy

From the Hardcover edition."

Book Description

The new DCI Serena Flanagan case sees Serena investigating the apparent suicide of a severely disabled man, while struggling to save her marriage

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1410497313
• ISBN 13: 9781410497314
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 501