Книга: Brian McGilloway «Preserve The Dead»

Preserve The Dead

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? In...

Издательство: "Corsair" (2015)

Формат: 165x240, 400 стр.

ISBN: 978-1-4721-1894-3

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Brian McGilloway

Brian McGilloway is an author hailing from Derry, Northern Ireland. He studied English at Queens University Belfast, where he was very active in student theatre, winning a prestigious national Irish Student Drama Association award for theatrical lighting design in 1996. He is currently Head of English at St. Columb's College, Derry. [cite news|url=http://www.derryjournal.com/features/McGilloway-on-the-run.3881033.jp|title=McGilloway on the run|last=DOHERTY|first=HARRY|date=2008-03-14|publisher=Derry Journal|accessdate=2008-05-31] [cite web|url=http://www.stcolumbs.com/Portal.aspx?tabindex=133&tabid=4130&parentid=4081|title=St Columb's College Derry - English|accessdate=2008-05-31] McGilloway's debut novel was a crime thriller called "Borderlands". "Borderlands" was shortlisted for a Crime Writers' Association Dagger award for a debut novel. [cite news|title=Dark fiction that knows no boundaries|last=Burke|first=Declan |date=2007-10-28|work=The Sunday Times]

In 2007 McGilloway signed with Pan Macmillan to write three crime thrillers in his Inspector Devlin series. [cite journal|date=2007-03-23|title='No-frills' authors move to Pan|journal=Bookseller|issue=Issue 5273|pages=p10|issn=00067539] The sequel to "Borderlands", "Gallows Lane", was published in April, 2008.

External links

* [http://www.brianmcgilloway.com/ Brian McGilloway home page]

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Источник: Brian McGilloway

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