In 1993, Detective Cormac Reilly is called to a remote house in Ireland. He finds a young girl Maude, and her five-year-old brother Jack alone with the body of their mother who has died from a heroin overdose. The story moves forward 20 years, and Jack commits suicide after his pregnant partner Aisling tells him she doesn't want to keep their baby. Detective Reilly has recently moved back to Gallway and is called on to reopen the original case and consider whether Maude may have killed her mother. Aisling and Maude work together to find out what really happened to Jack.
It was a good story but I never really connected with any of the characters. Jack disappeared from the story too quickly for me to become attached to him. Aisling is a trainee doctor. She rushes straight back to work after Jack dies, and sees no reason to change her mind about keeping the baby. The new job is a step down for Cormac and he has to deal with the politics of coming in as a high flyer and getting on with the job without getting anyone's back up. He has a partner but we don't hear much about her and none of the other police officers were particularly interesting. This is the first book in a series of Cormac Reilly novels. I read it because I wanted to read the second one, but now I'm not sure I want to.
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