After a brilliant trilogy of Ireland-based mysteries, Dervla McTiernan returns with The Murder Rule — a twisty legal thriller set in Richmond, Virginia, which exists somewhere between (vintage) John Grisham and Steve Cavanagh on the genre's spectrum. Compared to her Cormac Reilly series, The Murder Rule moves like a rocket. Opening with an email exchange … Continue reading Review: The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan
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The Best Books of 2019
When I started making this list, I had more than 40 books scrawled on a piece of paper. Getting it down to 20 books was difficult. Whittling it down to 10 was excruciating. I could actually feel it in my gut each time I crossed one out. Fact is, this list would probably be slightly different … Continue reading The Best Books of 2019
Review: The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan
Dervla McTiernan came out swinging with The Ruin (2018), but The Scholar is a knockout. A relentlessly paced, bombshell-laden plot combined with sharply-drawn, empathetic characters make this is the whodunit that should put McTiernan in the same league as Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson, Denise Mina and Tana French. Doctor Emma Sweeney's discovery of a young … Continue reading Review: The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan
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