A rookie security guard at Dublin Airport spots a pool of dried blood under a rental car - an American is found bludgeoned to death in the trunk. Garda Inspector Matt Minogue soon learns that there's more at stake here than the murder of a visitor, more even than adverse publicity for Ireland's vital tourist industry.
Patrick Shaughnessy, the dead man, did not travel like an ordinary tourist. He attended lavish society parties thrown by leading arts patrons, conferred with museum curators, and paid a special visit to the site of the Stone Age Carra community on Ireland's rugged west coast. Shaughnessy, it turns out, was the son of Irish American multimillionaire Johnny Leyne, and Inspector Minogue finds himself in charge of an investigation under intense media scrutiny and fraught with political entanglements. What drew Shaughnessy to archaeology and antiquities, a world as foreign to him as his absent father's homeland? What was he after, and what connection, if any, existed between his personal quest and his death? Who would want Shaughnessy dead, and why?
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Book Description:
John Brady's highly acclaimed Matt Minogue series makes its UK debut.
About the Author:
John Brady is the author of six Matt Minogue novels. He was born in Dublin and frequently revisits Ireland, particularly Minogue's birthplace, County Clare. He lives north of Toronto with his wife and children.
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- PublisherSteerforth Pr
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1586420186
- ISBN 13 9781586420185
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages362
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