The city of darkness / Michael Russell.
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TextSeries: Russell, Michael, Stefan Gillespie ; 03.Stefan Gillespie ; 03.Publisher: London : Constable, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 338 pages : map ; 24 cmContent type: cartographic image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472121943 (hardback); 9781472121929 (paperback)Subject(s): Gillespie, Stefan, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Detective and mystery stories | Large print books | Detectives -- Ireland -- Fiction | Missing persons -- Investigation -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Dublin (Ireland) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction | New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction | Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Large type books | Detective and mystery stories | Large type books | Detective and mystery fiction. | Detective and mystery stories DDC classification: 823.9/2 Summary: Christmas 1939. In Europe the Phoney War hides carnage to come. In Ireland Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie keeps tabs on Irishmen joining the British Forces. It's unpleasant work, but when an IRA raid on a military arsenal sends Garda Special Branch in search of guns and explosives, Stefan is soon convinced his boss, Superintendent Terry Gregory, is working for the IRA. At home for Christmas, Stefan is abruptly called to Laragh, an isolated mountain town. A postman has disappeared, believed killed, and Laragh's Guards are hiding something. Stefan is the nearest Special Branch detective, yet is he only there because Gregory wants him out of the way? Laragh is close to the lake where Stefan's wife Maeve drowned years earlier, and when events expose a connection between the missing postman and her death, Stefan realises it wasn't an accident, but murder. Stefan has to finally confront the ghosts of the past not only in the mountains of Wicklow, but in Spain in the aftermath of its bloody Civil War, before he can return to Dublin to find the truth.
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Published by W.F. Howes Ltd under the Clipper imprint.
Originally published: London: Avon, 2013.
Christmas 1939. In Europe the Phoney War hides carnage to come. In Ireland Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie keeps tabs on Irishmen joining the British Forces. It's unpleasant work, but when an IRA raid on a military arsenal sends Garda Special Branch in search of guns and explosives, Stefan is soon convinced his boss, Superintendent Terry Gregory, is working for the IRA. At home for Christmas, Stefan is abruptly called to Laragh, an isolated mountain town. A postman has disappeared, believed killed, and Laragh's Guards are hiding something. Stefan is the nearest Special Branch detective, yet is he only there because Gregory wants him out of the way? Laragh is close to the lake where Stefan's wife Maeve drowned years earlier, and when events expose a connection between the missing postman and her death, Stefan realises it wasn't an accident, but murder. Stefan has to finally confront the ghosts of the past not only in the mountains of Wicklow, but in Spain in the aftermath of its bloody Civil War, before he can return to Dublin to find the truth.
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