I only put this down to... wait, who am I kidding. I didn't put this down for anything. Not housework - definitely not housework. I read it in one day and in one solid gulp. I loved it for its complexity and its amazing writing full of believable characters. It is an added bonus that it is set in Ireland. And since my mom bought me book two for Christmas... guess what I'm going to do tomorrow? Hint: not housework.

I didn't really care for this book. It started out really good, but quickly lost it's energy for me. I felt like there were a lot of unnecessary characters that made it confusing. I was ready for it to be over. My thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for providing a galley of this book for review.

About as close to a flawless book as it gets. And while many writers are compared to Tana French, this is the first time I’ve found the author worthy of that comparison.

There is nothing better then finding a new series that I am going to like. This one is set in Ireland and the first in the series find Cormac Reilly looking into a cold case he was involved in when he was a rookie. What is its ties to a current case being passed off as a suicide by his department?

This story is well told with an undertone of abuse and apathy that will have you wanting to hit something. But Cormac does not give up even against a possibly corrupt co-worker and secrets that won't stay secrets for long.

Recommended!

Cormac Reilly is still trying to adjust to his new coworkers in Galway’s Garda. Having recently moved from Dublin, he doesn’t expect to just waltz right in - but he also didn’t expect to be stuck with dead-end cold cases for months on end. And then a current case intersects with his very first case from Dublin, some twenty years ago, and the two children left orphaned by their mother’s death. This was an excellent mystery, and I’m looking forward to the promised series.