Gerard O'Donovan, Scribner, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4516-1060-4
A sadist targets young women in O'Donovan's derivative second novel, a step down from his debut, White Lion, shortlisted for the CWA's Debut Dagger. When Insp. Mike Mulcahy returns to Ireland after a prestigious antinarcotics posting in Madrid, the...
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Gerard O’Donovan. Scribner, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4516-1063-5
In Irish author O’Donovan’s excellent follow-up to 2011’s The Priest, Det. Insp. Mike Mulcahy, the head of the Garda Síochána’s drug squad’s small International Liaison Unit in Dublin Castle, takes on a complex big-time cocaine smuggling case....
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Gerard O’Donovan. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8774-0
Set in Hollywood in 1922, this outstanding series launch from O’Donovan (Dublin Dead) puts a fictional spin on the real-life murder of film director William Desmond Taylor. Querulous movie producer Mack Sennett (of Keystone Cops fame) hires...
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Gerard O’Donovan. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8903-4
In O’Donovan’s engrossing sequel to 2018’s The Long Silence, likewise set in 1922 Hollywood, movie director Rex Ingram needs the help of PI Tom Collins, a former L.A. police officer. The female lead of his next picture, “sultry screen vamp” Barbara...
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