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The Ruin is the first in an exciting new crime series featuring detective Cormac Reilly. Cormac has left a high-flying Dublin career to return to Galway, where he is confronted with a case that has haunted him for twenty years...

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´As moving as it is fast-paced´ VAL McDERMID

Shortlisted for the Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the RTE Listeners´ Choice Award
Shortlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker Prize 2018

´Spectacularly good´ MARIAN KEYES
´A compelling story with beautifully drawn characters´ LAURA MARSHALL February 1993
On his first week on the job, Garda Cormac Reilly responds to a call at a decrepit country house to find two silent, neglected children waiting for him - fifteen-year-old Maude and five-year-old Jack. Their mother lies dead upstairs. March 2013
Twenty years later, Cormac has left his high-flying career as a detective in Dublin and returned to Galway. As he struggles to navigate the politics of a new police station, Maude and Jack return to haunt him.

What ties a recent suicide to the woman´s death so long ago? And who among his new colleagues can Cormac really trust?

Dervla McTiernan´s powerful debut The Ruin draws us into the dark heart of Ireland and asks who will protect you when the authorities can´t - or won´t. Perfect for fans of Val McDermid, Tana French and Susie Steiner.

Praise for THE RUIN: ´Brilliantly crafted . . . incredibly real-feeling characters. An absolute treat!´ SUNDAY MIRROR

´An exciting new voice in Irish noir´ SUNDAY TIMES

´Corruption, clandestine cover-ups and criminal conspiracy ... as moving as it is fast-paced´ VAL McDERMID

´Loved THE RUIN by Dervla McTiernan. A compelling story with beautifully drawn characters I really cared about´ LAURA MARSHALL,

´Absolutely brilliant. Wonderful characters, authentic setting, and a sublime, twisty plot´ IRISH EXAMINER

´Heartbreaking and heart-stopping´ CAZ FREAR

´THE RUIN is as convincing as it is multi-layered, as compelling as it is complex . . . Dervla is a future star of the genre´ CHRIS BROOKMYRE

´Fans of Tana French will love McTiernan´s expertly plotted, complex web of secrets that refuse to stay hidden´ KAREN DIONNE

There are not many books that will keep me reading from start to finish but Dervla McTiernan´s THE RUIN did just that . . . An excellent story, very well written . . . this one was a winner for me! ALEX GRAY

´Loved every page . . . Cormac Reilly is a brilliant new character, so real you can hear his footsteps on the stairs. Utterly gripping, brilliantly executed story´ SAM BLAKE

´Intelligent, compassionate and believable´ SINEAD CROWLEY

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A very fine novel . . . excellently written and, at times, heartcatchingly sad Marian Keyes

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