Borderlands

  • Crime; Police Procedural; Thriller

  • June 2020

    • Germany: DuMont

    • World English Language: Constable, Little Brown UK

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The corpse of local teenager Angela Cashell is found on the Tyrone-Donegal border, between the North and South of Ireland, in an area known as the borderlands. Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin heads the investigation: the only clues are a gold ring placed on the girl's finger and an old photograph, left where she died. 

Then another teenager is murdered, and things become further complicated when Devlin unearths a link between the recent killings and the disappearance of a prostitute twenty-five years earlier - a case in which he believes one of his own colleagues is implicated.

​As a thickening snow storm blurs the border between the North and South, Devlin finds the distinction between right and wrong, vengeance and justice, and even police-officer and criminal becoming equally unclear.

Selected Praise

A mystery of labyrinth complexity.
— Sunday Telegraph
Brian McGilloway’s command of plot and assurance of language make it difficult to believe that Borderlands is his debut
— The Times
Dazzling
— Guardian

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