The Ruin, McTiernan - B

                                 This is the debut novel in a new police series set in Galway, on Ireland's west coast. It is off to a fine start exposing, in this instance, the archaic, medieval and dark sides of the Garda and the Church. On his first case out of training twenty years ago, Cormac Reilly finds a fifteen year old girl caring for her five year old brother, with their junkie unmarried mother dead in her bed. He catches a case involving the girl and her now deceased younger brother. The plot is intricate, the story is perfectly paced and the series is one with a future.