The Nameless Dead

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The Nameless Dead (Ben Devlin Thriller 5)
Brian McGilloway

'You can't investigate the baby, Inspector. It's the law.'

Declan Cleary's body has never been found, but everyone believes he was killed for informing on a friend over thirty years ago. Now the Commission for Location of Victims' Remains is following a tip-off that he was buried on the small isle of Islandmore, in the middle of the River Foyle.

Instead, the dig uncovers a baby's skeleton, and it doesn't look like death by natural causes. But evidence revealed by the Commission's activities cannot lead to prosecution. Inspector Devlin is torn. He has no desire to resurrect the violent divisions of the recent past. Neither can he let a suspected murderer go unpunished.

Now the secret is out, more deaths follow. Devlin must follow his conscience - even when that puts those closest to him at terrible risk

GENRE
Crime; Police Procedural; Thriller

UK PUBLICATION
June 2020 (eBook)
April 2021 (paperback)

Praise

"In The Nameless Dead, Brian McGilloway weaves a moving, beautifully written story of lost parental hopes and the still angry wounds of political strife."
The Times

"Heart-breaking. The Nameless Dead is as good a novel of modern Ireland as you're likely to read this year, crime or otherwise."
Irish Times

"Northern Ireland s bloody history adds gritty reality to the fifth in the popular series featuring the all-too-human Inspector Devlin."
Peterborough Evening Telegraph

"McGilloway's elegant, almost elegiac, writing and his humane, sensitive Garda detective raise The Nameless Dead from a gloomy reflection on Northern Ireland s past to a poignant, perfectly-pitched crime story which counterbalances fictional drama with factual history."
Lancashire Evening Post