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Though the heavens fall / Anne Emery.
As 1995 dawns in the North of Ireland, the IRA has called a ceasefire. So, it's as good a time as any for Monty Collins and Father Brennan Burke to visit the city. But the past is never past in Belfast, and it rises up to haunt them all: a man goes off a bridge on a dark, lonely road; a rogue IRA enforcer is shot; and a series of car bombs remains an unsolved crime. With a smoking gun at the centre of it all, Brennan and Monty are on a collision course and will learn more than they ever wanted to know about what passes for law in 1995 Belfast.
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- ISBN: 9781770413863
- Physical Description: 421 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : ECW Press, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
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| Genre: | Mystery fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Smithers Public Library | F EME (Text) | 35101011035321 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2018 September #1
The tenth in the Monty Collins and Father Brennan Burke series finds the friends both in Belfast in 1995. Brennan is visiting family before a trip to Rome, and Monty is representing his Canadian law firm on a case. Brennan's cousin Ronan is well known in Northern Ireland, an influential republican who is promoting not only the cease-fire but also a long-term peace agreement. His stance puts him at odds with Unionists and with his less-temperate neighbors. Monty also finds himself caught up in Irish politics when he takes on a pro-bono case helping a local family prove their father's fall from a bridge three years ago was murder, making the family entitled to compensation for their loss. The two friends have no idea that these seemingly unrelated concerns will intersect with calamitous results that echo the violence that has plagued the region. Fans won't want to miss this strong installment in a fine series. Copyright 2018 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2018 August #2
Halifax attorney Monty Collins and his wife, professor Maura MacNeil, come to Ireland just in time to sink neck-deep in the latest round of the Troubles. The beginning of 1995 finds Monty's Dublin-born friend, Father Brennan Burke, visiting his Belfast relatives at the same time that Monty's been embedded in a Belfast law firm. Their closeness brings the two old friends together, but not necessarily in the best ways. Although Monty's been placed temporarily with Ellison Whiteside to do some boring commercial work, the departure of one of EW's associates one step ahead of the law leaves a number of his criminal cases hanging, and Monty eagerly accepts the invitation to step into the breach. In the meantime, he's been importuned by Katie Flanagan to find out what happened to her father, Eamon Flanagan, who supposedly drowned three years ago after a fall from the Ammon Road Bridge on the same night that Provo soldier Fritzy O'Dwyer was shot to death very close by. Although Monty wants no part of a case bound to earn him the enmity of either the Loyalists or the Unionists, he seems unable to help learning further details that scream coverup. Brennan, for his part, has grown close enough to his cousin Ronan Burke's family that Ronan's son Tomás confesses to him a murder he committed and asks both absolution and Brennan's help in retrieving the murder weapon, which he hurriedly left years ago in a hiding place that's all too vulnerable. The plot to recover the rifle predictably goes wrong, leaving Brennan hanging out to dry just as Monty has raised enough hackles to get himself and his friends gently but firmly threatened if he doesn't drop the Flanagan case. The determination of each of the two old friends to protect the other by keeping him in ignorance ends up backfiring in a spectacular way. Emery (Lament for Bonnie, 2016, etc.) populates 1995 Belfast so conscientiously and evokes its atmosphere so faithfully that the historical background en d s up swallowing the plot she's devised, which for all its twists and turns can't possibly compete with the Troubles. Copyright Kirkus 2018 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved.
