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'Moving, beautifully written' The Times

'Heart-breaking. The Nameless Dead is as good a novel of modern Ireland as you're likely to read this year, crime or otherwise' Irish Times
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What's left to do, when the law disallows a murder investigation?

Declan Cleary's body has never been found, but everyone believes he was killed for informing on a friend over thirty years ago. Now the Commission for Location of Victims' Remains is following a tip-off that he was buried on the small isle of Islandmore, in the middle of the River Foyle.

Instead, the dig uncovers a baby's skeleton, and it doesn't look like death by natural causes. But evidence revealed by the Commission's activities cannot lead to prosecution. Inspector Devlin is torn. He has no desire to resurrect the violent divisions of the recent past. Neither can he let a suspected murderer go unpunished.

Now the secret is out, more deaths follow. Devlin must follow his conscience - even when that puts those closest to him at terrible risk . . .

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Praise for Brian McGilloway:

'Dazzling' The Guardian on Borderlands

'A clever web of intrigue that deepens and darkens as it twists' Peter James on Gallows Lane

'Some of the very best crime fiction being written today' Lee Child on Bad Blood

Length: 392 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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McGilloway returns with a nail-biting follow-up to the No. 1 Bestseller Little Girl Lost. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

About the Author

Brian McGilloway is the author of many crime novels including the Ben Devlin and Lucy Black series. The last Ben Devlin title, Little Girl Lost, became a New York Times and UK No.1 bestseller. In addition to being shortlisted for a CWA Dagger and the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, he is a past recipient of the Ulster University McCrea Literary Award and won the BBC Tony Doyle Award for his screenplay, Little Emperors. He currently teaches English in Strabane, where he lives with his wife and four children. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

ASIN : B087TGYQVP
Publisher : Constable (25 June 2020)
Language : English
File size : 636 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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Print length : 392 pages

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- 3,635 in British Detectives
- 4,849 in Traditional Detective Mysteries (Books)
- 6,553 in Police Procedurals (Kindle Store)

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Greg bigg

A fantastic story, with many twists and turns

Reviewed in Australia on 4 June 2015

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A fantastic story, with many twists and turns. Right up there with his other books and well worth the money

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Janice Staines

Limbo is a cruel and desolate place

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 March 2021

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This is the fifth book in the Ben Devlin series and it doesn’t disappoint. A tip-off sees Devlin searching for the body of one of the ‘Disappeared’ on the small island of Islandmore. His job is made difficult as this island is also a Cillin - a place where unbaptised children are buried and left in limbo, unable to move on to rest with God.

Devlin unearths more than he expected to as seven babies are discovered, all of them with facial deformities and one showing signs of being murdered.

Devlin is warned that he is not allowed to investigate the deaths of these historic bodies, but he discovers links to modern day crimes - and he is not able to let them go. Especially when they impact on his own family!

This is another cracking story from the author. We meet characters from the previous books and a whole lot of unsavoury new ones. We also learn more about mother and baby clinics where unmarried young girls were sent to deliver their babies... and were often mistreated as a result of their shame.

This is a difficult and sensitive story to explore, but it is handled with skill and aplomb by the author as it reaches its compromising conclusion.

Richard Latham

An island with an Ireland

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 November 2012

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The fifth book in the Inspector Devlin; the reader is familiar with the main characters and the writer is relaxed with his creation.
Brian McGilloway's writing is economic. Punchy descriptions and dialogue.
This is a terrific plot that does justice to the cross boarder conflicts and life after the troubles but is routed in events of the past. BM very skillfully keeps it contemporary; many would draw on a the writer's go to - the slowly revealed past as a separate story unfolding with the main narrative. The real skill is doing justice to things from the past but revealing those facts through detective work and dialogue progression so the mystery is contained and the solution rarely fully focuses until the dramatic conclusion.
The subject matter is grim with serious political struggles and religious shortcomings being touched upon sensitively and without rhetoric or justification leaving the reader to be involved and make their own mind up regarding these matters.
I like that best in novels as it allows you to be fully engaged with the story, its setting and the decisions people make in the knowledge known at the time.
This is McGilloway's skill and makes his books worth reading in terms of his historical context and thought provoking subject matter. At the heart of the story are real people. A crime and the difficulties detectives have in trying to solve the case.
Here we have the digging up of the past which uncovers a number of issues a lot of people would like to stay buried. It is how that premises unravels with the plot that makes this an exceptional novel and a intriguing crime murder mystery.
A book that does not require the reader to have read the previous stories already published; it stands alone as a gripping story from the Border region in Ireland but I guarantee once read you'll be chasing down the earlier episodes of this excellent police procedural series.

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bn crewe

Now on my fifth Devlin and enjoyed them all

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 October 2017

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Now on my fifth Devlin and enjoyed them all. And the setting, on the Irish/Northern Ireland border is unusual and adds a unique dimension to an always complex investigation. The revelations of the Irish culture and history do much to dispel the traditional picture of the whimsical, romantic land of the holiday brochure. The interpersonal dynamics occasionally irritate, but do add a very personal flavour to the narrative.

leoandjane

Another terrific murder mystery!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 December 2018

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I really enjoyed this - I found it really gripping and it was so cleverly written in that it interwove so many themes such as the burial of unbaptised babies, the concept of Limbo, the mother and baby homes and the ghastly things that went on in those places and the Disappeared. The real suffering still goes on but Brian Mc Gilloway handles it sensitively while still delivering a cracking page turner.

Paul Bk

Haunting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 April 2013

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As with any series of books one or two will be fillers, the story weaker, characterisation less well drawn. Not so here, this is as well written and paced as the best of the Inspector Devlin novels.
The body of a baby is dug up on a remote isle, but no sooner has the investigation begun than it falls foul of the rules regards the commission into locating the remains of victims of the troubles - no investigation can lead to a prosecution because the police were looking for the body of an informer. Devlin's conscience won't let the matter rest and soon news of the find is out and more deaths occur.
A strong story and an entertaining read.

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