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Preserve the Dead (DS Lucy Black 3)
Brian McGilloway
Detective Sergeant Lucy Black is visiting her father, a patient in a secure unit in Gransha Hospital on the banks of the River Foyle. He's been hurt badly in an altercation with another patient, and Lucy is shocked to discover him chained to the bed for safety. But she barely has time to take it all in, before an orderly raises the alarm - a body has been spotted floating in the river below...
The body of an elderly man in a grey suit is hauled ashore: he is cold dead. He has been dead for several days. In fact a closer examination reveals that he has already been embalmed. A full scale investigation is launched - could this really be the suicide they at first assumed, or is this some kind of sick joke?
Troubled and exhausted, Lucy goes back to her father's shell of a house to get some sleep; but there'll be no rest for her tonight. She's barely in the front door when a neighbour knocks, in total distress - his wife's sister has turned up badly beaten. Can she help?
The body of an elderly man in a grey suit is hauled ashore: he is cold dead. He has been dead for several days. In fact a closer examination reveals that he has already been embalmed. A full scale investigation is launched - could this really be the suicide they at first assumed, or is this some kind of sick joke?
Troubled and exhausted, Lucy goes back to her father's shell of a house to get some sleep; but there'll be no rest for her tonight. She's barely in the front door when a neighbour knocks, in total distress - his wife's sister has turned up badly beaten. Can she help?
GENRE
Crime; Police Procedural; Thriller
UK PUBLICATION
November 2020 (eBook)
Crime; Police Procedural; Thriller
UK PUBLICATION
November 2020 (eBook)
Praise
"Storytelling of the highest order from one of Irish crime writing's most unassuming masters."
Irish Independent
"A good read ... Don't worry if you're not familiar with the series - it works equally well as a stand-alone."
Evening Telegraph
"McGilloway's novels are enjoyable police procedurals, displaying his understanding of the evolving nature of criminal enterprises in a world of porous national boundaries."
Sunday Times
"A gripping and compelling story with a highly complex plot; only in the hands of an experienced practitioner such as this author can the various strands be coherently narrated and eventually brought together. Recommended."
Promoting Crime
Irish Independent
"A good read ... Don't worry if you're not familiar with the series - it works equally well as a stand-alone."
Evening Telegraph
"McGilloway's novels are enjoyable police procedurals, displaying his understanding of the evolving nature of criminal enterprises in a world of porous national boundaries."
Sunday Times
"A gripping and compelling story with a highly complex plot; only in the hands of an experienced practitioner such as this author can the various strands be coherently narrated and eventually brought together. Recommended."
Promoting Crime
Also by Brian McGilloway
DS Lucy Black series
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Rights Sales for PRESERVE THE DEAD
Italy: Newton Compton
Russia: Detected
Spain: Circulo de Lectores
Turkey: Ou Eram Books / Publishing House Ersen
USA: Witness Impulse, HPC / WMMorrow
World English Language (exc. USA & Canada): Constable, Little Brown UK
Russia: Detected
Spain: Circulo de Lectores
Turkey: Ou Eram Books / Publishing House Ersen
USA: Witness Impulse, HPC / WMMorrow
World English Language (exc. USA & Canada): Constable, Little Brown UK