\"The body is in the library,\" Colonel Osborne said. \"Come this way.\" Detective Inspector St John Strafford is called in from Dublin to investigate a murder at Ballyglass House - the Co. Wexford family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family....

The sumptuous, propulsive, sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author \"He wanted to know who she was, and why he was convinced he had some unremembered connection with her. It was as simple as that. But he knew it wasn\"t. It wasn\"t simple at all....

The Sunday Times bestselling author of Snow and April in Spain returns with Strafford and Quirke’s most troubling case yet. 1950s Dublin. in a lock-up garage in the city, the body of a young woman is discovered – an apparent suicide. But pathologist Dr Quirke and Detective Inspector Strafford soon suspect foul play....