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Bleed a River Deep
by Brian McGilloway

Release Date: 3rd Apr 2009
Publisher: Pan Macmillian
ISBN: 978 0 2307 0136 6
RRP: £12.99

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Devlin is back, in this the third in this astonishing crime series...

Harry Patterson has inconceivably been promoted to Super and Devlin is feeling the pinch. Summoned to the Orcas gold mine due to discovery of a dead body, both Patterson and Devlin meet up with its owner, John Weston, an influential Irish-American business who seems oddly determined that Devlin takes to him – going so far as to gift Devlin with a solid gold necklace for the wife. The body, as it turns out, is a bog lady; the remains of a sacrificed woman, which has been mummified over centuries buried in peat. Devlin, however, remains suspicious of Weston and in particular, Patterson’s relationship with him.

An illegal immigrant’s death after an attempted bank robbery leads Devlin to suspect that there is someone organising the smuggling of illegals into the country, but with Weston and Patterson on his case, he is forced to concentrate on the imminent arrival of a US senator who is to officially open the Orcas mine. When security goes wrong at the opening and the US senator is shot at, Patterson suspends Devlin with great satisfaction, but as Devlin starts to dig he not only begins to uncover some worrying secrets, but the count of dead bodies starts to pile up. What is the link between the mine and the grey-haired man with the pony tail? What does the water have to do with anything? And where is all the gold?

McGilloway is still on form in Bleed a River Deep. Devlin is still the cop with a conscience that every lay person will relate to. The damndest thing happens when you read a Devlin novel; time might as well freeze, the earth stop rotating for all you care – so absorbed are you in the story. Unlike so many other detective stories, you are not necessarily willing the bad guys to get caught, so much as you are rooting for Devlin to escape unscathed, with his conscience intact. You want to believe that there are real cops out there like him. Fans of McGilloway will not be disappointed and newcomers will realise that they have found a solid writer to follow. Bleed a River Deep cements McGilloway’s position as one of Ireland’s best crime writers.

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