![]() ![]() It’s clear that one of those mates in the pub is infuriated by the way Toby’s wealthy parents support him, the way things fall into his lap, the way he’s oblivious to his own privilege. Toby’s voice is charming, though we soon get glimpses that not everyone is so enamoured. ![]() There’s been some unpleasantness at the gallery over a forgery matter, but Toby feels he’s come out on top. We’re completely under the spell of the narrator, Toby, a lucky, popular, easy-going young guy – “Worrying had always seemed to me like a laughable waste of time and energy” - who works in PR at a Dublin art gallery, has a lovely though rather too perfect girlfriend, and enjoys a few drinks in the pub with his best mates from school. The detectives are peripheral, with police procedurals taking place in the wings. ![]() And these murder squad detectives – the awful Quigley, the staunch Superintendant O’Kelly, the sparky Cassie Maddox and others – reappear over the series of six novels.īut The Wych Elm, her first stand-alone book, is different. Her Dublin Murder Squad series, with its detailed police procedurals, is addictively many-layered: in the chilling Broken Harbour, the collapse of the Irish housing boom forms a menacing backdrop to family crack-ups, a multiple murder and a detective who feels the presence of evil as a “high hum” in his skull in The Secret Place, a girls’ boarding school, with deadly cliques and brilliant teen terminology, takes centre stage. ![]()
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