This is Bruen's first Jack Taylor novel. Jack seems to be a cliche, the tough, boozer cop, let go from The Guard (police) for his drinking. He loves books, however, perhaps because Bruen taught English all over the world. Despite his need for a drink, he manages to get by as a 'finder', usually by word of mouth. In this case, a gorgeous woman stops in his pub, plops an envelope full of money on the table, and asks him to prove that her daughter did not commit suicide but was murdered. Bruen not only loves books but also music, constantly adding lyrics or quotations from his reading to the beginning of a chapter. Jack not only falls for this woman, ends up trashing the relationship but finds a serial killer responsible for the deaths of many girls. It's gritty, in the Irish fashion, and takes place in Galway.
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