Paperback blurb: I should have kissed Debbie and the kids goodbye before I left the house...
When Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin is summoned to a burning barn, he finds the remains of a man who is identified as a local drug-dealer.
It soon becomes clear that the man's death was no accident.
Meanwhile, Devlin's former-colleague's teenage son has gone missing during a seaside camping trip.
Devlin is relieved when the boy's mother receives a text message from her son's phone, and so when a body is washed up on a nearby beach, the inspector is baffled.
Just as it seems he's closing in on the truth, a personal crisis will strike at the heart of Ben's own family, and he will be forced to confront the compromises his career has forced upon him.
Gripping, affecting and always surprising, The Rising is a dark tour de force.
McGilloway tells you what The Rising (first published in 2010) is about:
One of the best modern crime fiction I picked up this year. The Rising ends my Inspector Benedict Devlin Mystery series read. Book 4 is a bit slow on the uptake and not as pacy as the first three but still worth catching up if you want to know the outcome as I did. I hope there is going to be a Book 5. I shall look out for it. Happy reading.
A review by The Irish Independent.
Rating: 4/5
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