Brothers' Tears
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
A double murder reveals the dirty dealings and family secrets of a former Irish rugby star in “a formidable puzzle” for the “indomitable” British detective (Kirkus Reviews).
Irish ex-rugby player and now successful businessman, Jim O’Connor, was shot dead at point blank range in the parking lot of Claughton Towers where he was hosting a celebratory dinner. DCI Percy Peach is brought back from holiday to head up the high-profile investigation. It doesn’t take long before he has a surfeit of suspects on close watch—from the victim’s cheating wife to an avenging crime lord to the head of a local prostitution ring to an assassin for the Provisional IRA. Considering Jim’s dicey past, and shadier associations, each suspect has a clear motive.
But the case takes a sharp detour when Jim’s upstanding and much-loved brother Dominic is murdered next. To piece together this deadly puzzle, Peach looks a little closer to home, where the most dangerous impulses may run foul in the O’Connor family blood.
“This series [is] a winner.” —Booklist
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Gregson's low-key 17th British procedural featuring Det. Chief Insp. "Percy" Peach (after 2012's Dusty Death), former internationally known Irish rugby player Jim O'Connor, now a successful Lancashire businessman, is shot in the head while attending a dinner in his honor. Since O'Connor's interests include prostitution, gambling, and drugs, Peach and Sgt. Clyde Northcott know where to focus their inquiries and an arrest is quickly made. Case solved? Hardly. Several days later O'Connor's younger brother, Dominic, is found strangled in his home office. Is there a connection? A widening investigation that includes painstaking interviews with spouses, personal assistants, and business associates reveals, in addition to an astonishing number of adulterers, a possible Irish connection. The appeal of this mild story lies in the interplay between such memorable characters as Northcott, laconic yet intimidating; Det. Sgt. Lucy Peach, Peach's shrewd, competent, and sensuous wife; and Peach's superior, the thick-witted and egotistical Superintendent Tucker, on whom all irony is lost.
