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ISBN: 9781781997017
AuthorGallagher, Margaret
Pub Date19/09/2022
BindingPaperback
CountryIRL
Dewey823.92
Publisher: Poolbeg Press Ltd
Quick overview Exciting debut thriller set in Gweedore, Donegal.
€15.99

A baby boy is found beaten to death, in the sand dunes in Gweedore, in the summer of 1989. The murder weapon is a ball-peen hammer. Sarah Joyce, recently heavily pregnant and with no baby to show, becomes the prime suspect and is arrested.

Working in a male-dominated workplace in nineteen-eighties Ireland has its problems for Detective Kate Francis a.k.a. Frankie. From the outset, she encounters the hostility of the local sergeant, the curmudgeon Liam Patsy Brannigan. Her boyfriend, fed up with her long working hours, leaves. Her
married boss, Anton Moran, hits on her. Frankie – conscious of the ticking clock – longs for a child.

Lines of enquiry lead Frankie to bomb-planting on the border and across the border into Derry, where she finds herself operating under the watchful eyes of both the IRA and the British army.

The crashing waves, the wild rugged landscape and Errigal Mountain all form a background to Frankie’s relentless search of the killer of the Strand Baby.

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A baby boy is found beaten to death, in the sand dunes in Gweedore, in the summer of 1989. The murder weapon is a ball-peen hammer. Sarah Joyce, recently heavily pregnant and with no baby to show, becomes the prime suspect and is arrested.

Working in a male-dominated workplace in nineteen-eighties Ireland has its problems for Detective Kate Francis a.k.a. Frankie. From the outset, she encounters the hostility of the local sergeant, the curmudgeon Liam Patsy Brannigan. Her boyfriend, fed up with her long working hours, leaves. Her
married boss, Anton Moran, hits on her. Frankie – conscious of the ticking clock – longs for a child.

Lines of enquiry lead Frankie to bomb-planting on the border and across the border into Derry, where she finds herself operating under the watchful eyes of both the IRA and the British army.

The crashing waves, the wild rugged landscape and Errigal Mountain all form a background to Frankie’s relentless search of the killer of the Strand Baby.

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