The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan, Book Review
Another hugely enjoyable crime novel by an Irish author. What is it with the Irish? How do they produce so many good writers? Taking their population numbers into account they must be the per capita writing world leaders. Did they all kiss the Blarney Stone? I’d better get on with my review of Dervla McTiernan’s second book, The Scholar, a good follow-up to her first book, The Ruin, which was shortlisted for two awards, one in Ireland, the other in the US. Detective Cormac Reilly faces a very tricky investigation into the murder of Carline Darcy, the granddaughter of the wealthy and ruthless pharmaceuticals tycoon John Darcy. Cormac Reilly’s personal situation is made infinitely more difficult as his brilliant but troubled girlfriend Emma discovers the body and seeing that she an indirect link to the victim, soon becomes a suspect. How do you investigate a case when your partner is one of the suspects? And what does that do to your relationship? The setting at Galwa...