The Good Turn – Book 3 of the Cormac Reilly Series
About the book
When police officer Peter Fisher is called to the scene of a supposed prank call, irritation turns to fear when he realises that there is no joke. A young boy says he witnessed a little girl being bundled into the boot of a car, and Peter believes him.
DI Cormac Reilly and Peter search for answers, but obstacles are put in their way by their own superior officers. Frustrated and severely short-staffed, Peter and Cormac are pushed to breaking point, resulting in a fatal mistake.
Cormac is suspended from duty and Peter is banished to a tiny town on the west coast of Ireland, where he’s tasked with doing the paperwork in a murder investigation that’s supposed to have been resolved. But something isn’t adding up, including the mysterious appearance of a young woman and her nine-year-old daughter, who hasn’t spoken a word in months . . .
For readers drawn to psychologically rich crime stories about loyalty, guilt, and the long consequences of past choices.
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Other Books in the series
Book 1
The Ruin
Galway 1993: Young Garda Cormac Reilly is called to a scene he will never forget. Two silent, neglected children - fifteen-year-old Maude and five-year-old Jack - are waiting for him at a crumbling country house. Their mother lies dead upstairs.
Book 2
The Scholar
When Detective Cormac Reilly's girlfriend Emma stumbles across the victim of a hit and run early one morning, he is first on the scene of a murder that would never have been assigned to him.
Book 4
The Unquiet Grave
For years the boglands of Northern Europe have given up bodies that are thousands of years old, uncannily preserved. Bodies with strange injuries that suggest ritual torture and human sacrifice.
Looking for more?
If you’ve finished the Cormac Reilly novels or want to explore more, take a look at the standalone thrillers or the Audio Novellas.
