Wednesday, June 19, 2019

The Scholar

This second book by Dervla McTiernan about police detective, Cormac Reilly, is set in Galway Ireland.

Emma Sweeney works as a scientist at the laboratories of Darcy Therapeutics, next to the Galway University. One dark evening when she discovers the body of a young woman on the road outside the university she immediately calls  Cormac Reilly. Cormac then takes charge of finding out who murdered the young woman, but the case is complicated as he lives with Emma who is now implicated in the case.

The only identification on the victim is a security card for Darcy Therapeutics found in the pocket of her cardigan. This identifies her as Carline Darcy. However when Cormac visits her apartment a short time later he discovers that there has been an error so the hunt for the victim's identity continues as well as the reasons as to why she has been so brutally murdered.

Carline's grandfather, John Darcy, makes it clear that the protection of the research being undertaken at the laboratories is imperative placing obstacles in the path of the police carrying out the investigation. Cormac cannot believe that Emma is involved with the murder however as the investigation continues evidence mounts that she may indeed be involved. It is therefore imperative that he remains objective and finds evidence that may initially have been overlooked.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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