The Ruin The Ruin
Audiobook 1 - Cormac Reilly

The Ruin

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Publisher Description

The Top Ten fiction bestseller and critically acclaimed crime debut featuring everyone's favourite new detective, Cormac Reilly

'The Ruin is spectacularly good. So CONFIDENT ... excellently written and, at times, heartachingly sad' Marian Keyes

'Corruption, clandestine cover-ups and criminal conspiracy ... as moving as it is fast-paced' Val McDermid

'Dervla McTiernan's first novel outclasses some of the genre's stalwarts making her a crime writer to watch ... fans of Ian Rankin and Tana French will feel right at home' Bookseller + Publisher (4.5 stars)

Galway 1993: Young Garda Cormac Reilly is called to a scene he will never forget. Two silent, neglected children - fifteen-year-old Maude and five-year-old Jack - are waiting for him at a crumbling country house. Upstairs, their mother lies dead.

Twenty years later, a body surfaces in the icy black waters of the River Corrib. At first it looks like an open-and-shut case, but then doubt is cast on the investigation's findings - and the integrity of the police. Cormac is thrown back into the cold case that has haunted him his entire career - what links the two deaths, two decades apart? As he navigates his way through police politics and the ghosts of the past, Detective Reilly uncovers shocking secrets and finds himself questioning who among his colleagues he can trust.

What really did happen in that house where he first met Maude and Jack? The Ruin draws us deep into the dark heart of Ireland and asks who will protect you when the authorities can't - or won't.

GENRE
Crime & Thrillers
NARRATOR
AM
Aoife McMahon
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
10:25
hr min
RELEASED
2018
19 March
PUBLISHER
HarperAudio
SIZE
429.3
MB

Customer Reviews

generictypegirl ,

Narrator does a horrific Australian accent

As an Australian myself, the narrator’s hamfisted attempt at an Australian accent (which she also managed to make sound like a mishmash of a New Zealand and Afrikaans accents) was so cringeworthy and off putting it distracted from the writing.

msbrowncow ,

More relaxing than compelling but still enjoyable

This was my first audio book and I enjoyed the experience. It put me to sleep more often than expected.

Knitting possum ,

Brilliant

Love the way this was written and the narration was excellent,

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