The Dead

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Five years ago Ed Fagan, the serial killer known as the Night Hunter, disappeared. Since then nothing has been heard from him. But now a Dublin newspaper has received a letter claiming to be from Fagan with a chilling message: he s going to kill again. The Dublin Metropolitan Police are inclined to dismiss the letter as a hoax, but when the body of prostitute Mary Lynch is found, they believe the murderer may well be Fagan. Saxon, a former FBI agent who was writing a book about Fagan when he disappeared, is certain that the killer is someone else. So while DCS Grace Fitzgerald and her team sniff at a cold trail, Saxon must somehow convince them to look beyond the obvious. But in a city of shadows and secrets, that s never going to be easy especially when the truth is so unexpected that even the most astute detective could be shocked into carelessness in the moment of discovery. And carelessness, in the presence of a killer, can be costly...

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Atmosphere, pace and tension are superbly controlled... complex plot is expertly controlled, with false clues and red herrings that lead the reader, like the protagonist, to suspect everyone... - Sunday Times, Ireland

It is fast moving, witty, intelligent and, above all, it never allows the reader's interest to falter... It is extremely well-written and is marked by well-drawn characters, extensive research, snappy dialogue and an absence of cliches...an extremely statisfying debut and a welcome addition to the growing canon of Irish crime fiction - Irish Independent

Ingrid Black's recently published THE DEAD works so extraordinarily well...It might well be the first thriller ever written in which not a single reader guesses the identity of the murderer...I'm unaware of anyone taking the maverick PI genre and relocating it successfully outside the USA...Eilis O'Hanlon...has managed it quite brilliantly. - Irish Times

This book is a book in which lots of people, including the killer, are insanely driven and ferociously clever; Ingrid Black kept me guessing until the very end - Daily Telegraph

Author Bio

Ingrid Black is a writer and journalist. She lives in Ireland.