Now in paperback Winner of the 2019 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel As 1995 dawns in the North of Ireland, Belfast is a city of army patrols, bombed-out buildings, and peace walls segregating one community from the other.
But the IRA has called a ceasefire.
So, it's as good a time as any for Monty Collins and Father Brennan Burke to visit the city: Monty to do a short gig in a law firm, and Brennan to reconnect with family.
And it's a good time for Brennan's cousin Ronan to lay down arms and campaign for election in a future peacetime government.
But the past is never past in Belfast, and it rises up to haunt them all: a man goes off a bridge on a dark, lonely road; a rogue IRA enforcer is shot; and a series of car bombs remains an unsolved crime.
The trouble is compounded by a breakdown in communication: Brennan knows nothing about the secrets in a file on Monty's desk.
And Monty has no idea what lies behind a late-night warning from the IRA.
With a smoking gun at the center of it all, Brennan and Monty are on a collision course and will learn more than they ever wanted to know about what passes for law in 1995 Belfast.
An inscription on a building south of the Irish border says it all: Let justice be done though the heavens fall.
About the Author Anne Emery is a lawyer and the author of the Collins-Burke mystery series, set in Halifax, Cape Breton, Ireland, London, and New York.
She has won two Arthur Ellis Awards, an Independent Publisher Book Awards silver medal, and the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction.
| City | Monty to do a short gig in a law firm and |
|---|---|
| Belfast, and it rises up to haunt them all | A man goes off a bridge on a dark lonely road |
| The trouble is compounded by a breakdown in communication | Brennan knows nothing about the secrets in a file on |
| Irish border says it all | Let justice be done though the heavens fall |
