title: The Ruin: A Novel
author:  Dervla McTiernan 
description: <strong><a href=//www.amazon.com/b/?node=17143709011">An Amazon Best Book of July 2018:</a></strong> Dervla McTiernan is an author whose star is on the rise. Her debut, <em>The Ruin</em>, reminded me of Tana Frenchs novels, and I think others will find the comparison apt. <em>The Ruin</em> begins with a young policeman responding to a call at a dilapidated house in Ireland. Two children are living in squalor and he finds their mother dead from an apparent overdose. Twenty years later a reported suicide leads Detective Cormac Reilly back to that same crime scene, and the children hes never quite been able to forget. <em>The Ruin</em> is filled with questionable recollections, red herrings, and characters that get under your skin. As the case goes on, the mysteries surrounding the two deaths become enmeshed with the claustrophobia of small town history and corruption. There are many threads to McTiernans tale, and that can sometimes get in the way of a satisfying conclusion, but in the end, when McTiernan pulls those threads taut, it becomes clear that she had a master plan all along. A gritty, tense, and calculated mystery, <em>The Ruin</em> left me eager for Cormac Reillys next case.<em>--Seira Wilson, Amazon Book Review</em>
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  The Slide into Ruin
  
  A Daughters of Disgrace Historical Romance
  
  Bronwyn Stuart
  
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  The Slide into Ruin
  
  Copyright© 2020 Bronwyn Stuart
  
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  First Publication by Tule Publishing 2020
  
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  ISBN: 978-1-952560-25-5
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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