'Waiting on Wednesday' is an event where I feature an upcoming book that I am extra excited about. I love doing this, letting the 'word' spread about authors and series that I enjoy. Hope you'll stop by often and see what I'm 'waiting' on!
My selection for this week's 'Waiting on...' post is the 4th in an Irish crime series written by Dervla McTiernan. It features DS Cormac Reilly and I read the first two books in the series a few years ago. They were The Ruin and The Scholar. The third book, The Good Turn, I haven't tried as yet. However, hopefully soon. I recall that I listened to the ones I read and the narrator, Aoife McMahon, was really good. So, that's the upcoming book that I'm interested in. Have you read any of this author's books? I think she has one or two standalone books as well.
The Unquiet Grave
Publication Date: May 16th
Every grave has a story ...
The much-anticipated new novel in the Cormac Reilly series, from the No.1 Internationally bestselling author of The Ruin and What Happened to Nina.
For years the boglands of Northern Europe have given up bodies of the long-deceased. Bodies that are thousands of years old, uncannily preserved. Bodies with strange injuries that suggest ritual torture and human sacrifice.
When a corpse is found in a bog in Galway, Cormac Reilly assumes the find is historical. But closer examination reveals a more recent story. The dead man is Thaddeus Grey, a local secondary school principal who disappeared two years prior.
There's nothing in Grey's past that would explain why he was murdered, or why his body was mutilated in a ritual manner. At first, progress on the case is frustratingly slow and Cormac struggles to keep his mind on the job. His ex-girlfriend, Emma Sweeney, is in trouble, and she's reached out to him for help - Emma's new husband has gone missing in Paris, and the French police are refusing to open an investigation into his disappearance.
Cormac is sure that he has found Grey's killer, and is within hours of an arrest, when another mutilated body is discovered on the other side of the country. Two days later, a third body is found. Press attention is intense. Is there a serial killer at work in Ireland? Has Cormac been on the wrong trail? And if so, can he find the murderer before they strike again?
This sounds very intense!
ReplyDeleteIt does, doesn't it? Looking forward to reading it. I'm thinking about rereading the first two books and then going on to #3 and then being ready for this one.
DeleteI have read The Ruin and really liked it. Thanks for the reminder about this series. It fell off my radar and I would like to read more of these.
ReplyDeleteGood to hear that you liked The Ruin. At least it's not a long series. And I suspect the library has copies.
DeleteI haven't read her but I think I have one on my Kindle.
ReplyDeleteMary
Maybe you'll get to try it, Mary. I have so, so many books on my Kindle that I haven't read as yet. I really want to make it a project to try a bunch of them. If I don't like them, fine, but I'm trying not to get too many new books. That's the plan anyway. We'll see if I follow through - ha!
DeleteOoh...I love the sound of this one!
ReplyDeleteIt does sound intriguing, doesn't it? Looking forward to it a lot.
DeleteOh this looks good! I like an intense procedural mystery and haven't read enough of them.
ReplyDeleteI hope to be able to read it when it comes out. Well, need to read the previous book first, but....
DeleteI have not read Dervla but I see from her website she moved from Ireland to Perth -- quite an interesting change! I hope you enjoy.
ReplyDeleteYes, I had forgotten that. I think I will enjoy it!
DeleteI am not sure I am ready for a new series, even if it is only 4 books so far. But it is a police procedural and set in Ireland, so I will look into getting the first book.
ReplyDeleteTracy, there are a lot of series, right? Guess we can't read them all. Sigh. Maybe you'll run across the first book at one of your book sales.
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