Trespass
A Detective Daly Mystery
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
The new novel by a master of Irish crime fiction catapults Detective Celsius Daly into the search for of missing boy—which leads to an unsolved mystery from the era of The Troubles.
Detective Celcius Daly is investigating the abduction of a boy by a group of travelers already under investigation for smuggling and organized crime. As he digs into the child's background, he discovers a family secret linked to an unsolved crime during The Troubles – the disappearance of a young woman and her baby. Daly's investigation shakes loose some harrowing truths about the lawlessness of Northern Ireland's border country.
Undergoing an internal investigation over his handling of the search for IRA spy Daniel Hegarty, Daly soon finds himself entangled in a vigilante mission, discovering just how far a group of outsiders will go to find their own justice.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set largely in the border country between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, Quinn's uneven fourth mystery featuring Insp. Celcius Daly (after 2015's Silence) chronicles the embattled Belfast police detective's struggle to find a missing 10-year-old boy, who has allegedly been abducted by Travellers. Daly quickly finds himself in a politically precarious investigation after he unearths connections between the boy's disappearance and an decades-old unsolved mystery concerning a missing Traveller woman who was suspected of being an IRA informer during the Troubles. Powered by relentlessly bleak atmospherics and symbolism, this story is darkly immersive on many levels. Quinn's exploration of the hidden war being waged over the purchase of property on the border is intriguing, as is the secretive culture of the Travellers, a nomadic group who survive by navigating ancient routes through the wilderness. But there's an emotional numbness to the narrative particularly in Daly's characterization that gives the book a detached and almost indifferent feel that dulls the story's impact.
