The action shifts to Connemara and the village of Roundstone,to which Peter has been sent as a punishment. His dissolute father,Des,is the local sergeant,and his beloved grandmother,Maggie,lives in a stone dormer cottage on a hill. Cormac,meanwhile,will head off to Brussels where his partner,Emma,is working as a scientist in a bid to keep their relationship afloat. It’s been in danger of sinking for some time now.
While Peter might resent being sidelined to what amounts to a desk job,there’s a lot going on in Roundstone,not least his fraught dealings with his difficult father,who treats the village as his fiefdom. To add to the domestic complications,his grandmother is seriously ill. Meanwhile,Cormac starts a clandestine investigation of his own into the operations of Murphy’s drug task force. There is,it must be said,never a dull moment.
As the scale of the corruption that Peter and Cormac are now facing becomes increasingly apparent,the stakes get even higher. By the end. I was not just thoroughly invested in their struggle for justice,but also cheering them on.
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Rest assured,whileThe Good Turn may be gripping,it is also uplifting – and there aren’t many crime novels you can say that about. McTiernan has absolutely hit her stride.