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The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan

The Ruin, the first book featuring Dervla McTiernan's garda Cormac Reilly, is a competently written thriller showing the depths of human depravity.

I do love a good police thriller and I’d not heard of Dervla McTiernan when I picked up her book The Ruin. I haven’t read a police detective book in a while and as the books are set in Ireland, it sounded like it might be an interesting prospect, something different. Dervla’s main character is a detective sergeant in the Gardaí called Cormac Reilly and this is the first book that follows his…

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Book Review of The Roommate This little gem by Dervla McTiernan (yes it briefly features Cormac Reilly) was a freebie on Audible this month, and I really enjoyed the brief two hour listen. 

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Book Review of The Good Turn Dervla McTiernan's Cormac Reilly series is starting to feel comfortably familiar to me - like revisiting an old friend. 

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Book Review of Dervla McTiernan’s The Sisters I really enjoy Dervla McTiernan's Cormac Reilly novels, and this little gem was a recent Audible Original that members could choose to download for free.

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Book Review of The Scholar I've come back to these very readable Dervla McTiernan mysteries even though I complained somewhat that the main character isn't really crucial to the solving of the mystery in the first in the sequence, The Ruin.

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Book Review of The Ruin

Book Review of The Ruin

The Ruin is an easy mystery and fairly perfect holiday reading.

We are introduced to Garda Cormac Reilly an Irish big-city cop who has transferred to Galway for love. Resented by the local cops, he is loaded up with cold cases and left to remain bored and obscure. But plenty is going on in this new town… including the resurfacing of a case he first encountered as a rookie, and two deaths that…

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The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan

Title: The Ruin Author: Dervla McTiernan Genre: Mystery/Thriller   Publisher: Penguin Books Publication Date: July 3, 2018 Format: egalley via First to Read

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My Rating: 4 of 5 stars

My Review:

Thank you, Penguin, for selecting me for an advanced copy of The Ruin!

I was quickly engrossed in Cormac's plight and life as well as the twisted story which was being woven. I thoroughly love that McTiernan brought a true, back-to-the-basics crime/murder mystery. I also love reading international settings and enjoyed the authentic Ireland background.

I'm looking forward to future Cormac Reilly installments!

I was provided with an ARC of this book by the publisher or author in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own. I am not compensated for any of my reviews.